We can never understand how our weekends leave us so exhausted, but this weekend was a prime example of what our "mellow" weekends look like. Mystery solved we think.
Inspired by all the facebook statuses from Oregon friends talking about their blueberry bounties, T did a bit of research and found some local u-pick farms. No blueberries, but we were able to get strawberries and blackberries and in a few weeks we plan to go back for some apples. (If we had been a couple months earlier we could have had kiwi and something called an olallieberry.)
Swanton Farms is on the coast just north of Santa Cruz, so we drove out through Half Moon Bay and since we thought we would be a bit early to meet our friends, we decided to stop and check out some tide pools at Pebble Beach. We saw one starfish and lots of crabs, hermit and whatever you call the non-hermit variety.
We got so many berries, and that's not even counting the strawberries that failed to make it past C on the way to our basket.We used a small portion of the strawberries to make scones on Sunday and most every meal has been served with a side of berries. We might make smoothies tonight.
After the successful berry gathering venture, we finally stopped at the little roadside pony rides place on 92. There is so much more to Lemos than pony rides, we had no idea. The Lymans joined us (eventually) there as well and the kids were suitably entranced.
If we hadn't worn ourselves out enough, we came home cleaned off all the dust and dirt and headed over to the library. Little wonder C was sick the next day and today B and T are sick, and J just mentioned having a sore throat. We really need to learn to kick back every once in awhile, for reals and not just in theory.
really nice collections of a family portrait.
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