Friday - San Diego

Well - El Cajon to be precise....

Friday was a very chilled out day. It was dang hot and we spent a lot of the day just hanging in the garden with Vinny, Casey the super affectionate dog and the crazy cat. Jodi had to go to work, during the day.

Vinny and Mark practice their loafing skills. Experts at work...

Casey

Bonkers cat! Affectionate one minute, biting your ankles the next.

We were just enjoying the weather and watching birds and butterflies buzzing around the garden.

Swallowtail?

We did leave the house, to go grocery shopping with Vinny. I actually really enjoy going to supermarkets in the US. It's a very different experience to here, so it has novelty value (much like the cucumber lady in Sainsburys - in joke...) Everything is BIG in America. Supermarkets, the shopping carts, portion sizes, THE BILL! It's surpising really. Eating out is so cheap over there in comparison to here, but actually buying food is pretty expensive. We went to a couple of places and tried to resist the temptation to buy LOADS of stuff.

Then we went with Vinny to pick Viv up from school and she hung out with us in the afternoon too.

Viv

Lunch was American style sandwiches (which I am now obsessed with since we came home). They KNOW how to make a sandwich! It has to have AT LEAST 6 ingredients.

None of your boring cheese & pickle - oh no..... For example, my sandwich today was mayonnaise, quorn ham, grated cheese, cucumber, lettuce and home-made salsa - and it was bloody lovely.

But I digress (again).

Vern stayed over at her friend Cassidy’s house on Friday night, so we didn't see her much. She's a Varsity cheerleader and they had a game. She looked awesome in her outfit.

It was still so hot on Friday evening that we decided to not go to the Brendan Benson gig in San Diego. Besides - we wanted to spend as much time as possible with our friends, and a gig isn't the best place to make conversation.

Vinny made his world famous tacos for dinner, which were YUMMERS, then I settled down to watch a film with Jodi, while the boys watched a baseball game. Jodi and I watched 300, which is a fantastic film about the Spartan army. It was cool.

Sleep. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz