Grandparents Day at the Village

Today is the annual Grandparents Day here at Laguna Woods Village.  And Linda jumped in with both feet.  Of course we’ll have to wait until next year to bring our own Grandboy, but we have 3 nieces and 1 nephew.  Iris & Violet spent the night with us on Tuesday night, then Katie brought Chase & Ardyn in the morning.  Then Linda & her sister Donna took the kids to Clubhouse 2 to have some fun.

We didn’t know what to expect as a lot of the things they presented were aimed at older children, including a water slide and a dunk tank.  But there was enough things to keep the kids, ranging in age from 3 to 6 months, busy. There’s not a lot of pictures because I didn’t go, this was a sister’s event.

After it was over, Linda took everyone to the stables to visit the horses.  Then they came back to the house.  Katie had a long drive home so she left with her 2 tired children.  Hopefully they slept all the way home.  Iris & Violet played in the sprinklers and then had an early dinner of John’s Famous Spaghetti.  I think that was the highlight of the day.

Donna took Iris & Violet back to her house to spend the night.  And Linda went to bed early.  It was a long night and day with the girls, and she needs to build up her endurance if she’s going to have one of her own.

We Split Up

But only for the day.  Linda and her sister Donna picked up Chase and took him to the San Diego Zoo.  I had a luncheon appointment with my second cousin, Judy, to deliver the hands.

You’re probably thinking “what hands”.  The Bauman family has a tradition that dates back to 1883 of wax hands on the wedding cake for members of the family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judy’s daughter is getting married in May in Rhode Island and she wanted the hands for the celebration.  So the tradition continues! Is that neat or what.  We had a nice lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, and we had a pleasant hour catching up with family news.  When I was growing up I was lucky to be close to a lot of my cousins, and the families would get together for any holiday.

Meanwhile, the sisters were having a great time with Chase at the Zoo.

There’s a lot more pictures at this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/winequest/ChaseAtTheSanDiegoZoo#

So we’re having a good time here in SoCal while we wait for a surgery date.