On Thursday night Josephine, Tara and I arrived late at my parent's. They were asleep and in about 5 minutes we were all asleep too. We woke up bright and early ready to start the day. Right away Josie found the little shelves with Katie's old toys that she keeps at Gram's house. Katie and Karen came over after breakfast.
Just when we thought we were done celebrating Josie's bday along comes a party in the livingroom at Gram & Papa's. The "adults" eating breakfast in the dining room missed all the festivities.
Josie got a new dog just like Oliver and Miller's with the same name too - Pepparkakor.
While Josie got lots of love and attention from her grandparents, cousin, and aunt & uncle, Tara and I drove down to UCLA to give lots of love and attention to Rachel. Friday was her 19th her birthday.
We arrived at Rachel's apartment around noon. We walked through campus and to Trader Joe's. She lives about 4 blocks from restaurants, stores, cafes etc. and of course very close to campus. I got to meet her fun roommate Casey. We were headed out to an early movie and dinner but traffic getting out of the area to the freeway was bumper to bumper and we would have never made it in time so did a little clothes shopping at Ross and drove back to Rachel's to leave the car and walk to dinner. We had an adventurous time at California Pizza Kitchen and definitely ate enough with our free appetizers, soup and dessert (Rach let us try her sundae) and then our regular dinner that we did pay for. On top of that we got to eat Rachel's birthday cake that Ron made for her. Delicious carrot cake. We watched part of a movie and then sprawled out across their studio to sleep. We did sleep in like typical college students and then took Rach to Costco. We left around 3pm to head back up to SB. What a whirlwind trip and so fun to see Rach, all grown up and in college.
We arrived back in SB a little before 5. I'm not sure Josie even knew I was gone. She had a great time and didn't cry or ask for me once. What a nice feeling knowing she was so content and in good hands.
We all went out to dinner on Saturday night at Palazzio's and then Josie and my parents went back to the house. Katie, as usual, read books and put Josie to bed. Too bad she can't move to San Carlos and be our nanny.
We went to see the Monarch butterflies before we headed out of town. Their migration is late so we were fortunate to see so many flying around and in their huge clumps. Plus it was a beautiful day to be on the coast.
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