Anywhere else it doesn't even count as a drizzle.
Here, it's rain.
And the people here all complain that it's raining.
Sheesh. I had 4 status messages from my 4 local "friends" on facebook all complaining about why it's raining .
The answer to your question my dear friends is.....
YOU NEED WATER
to drink, to bathe to cook
And if you want to have a green lawn or garden, you need it for that as well.
When you have however many millions of people living in the desert or semi-desert, it's nice for it to rain once in a while.
It's earth science and ecology/our environment basics. Perhaps you weren't homeschooled, so you didn't learn this.
Anyway life has moved beyond our coffee grind incident and I didn't need to administer CPR or call 911 when I told Larry how much our airline tickets were. So we've all made it to another week.
And as normal for us, if there was something fun that was free or super cheap, we'd be there.
This weekend it was the "Oceanside Military Appreciation Day." Because it's nice to be "appreciated" even if it's for 6 hours. I expected it to be crowded beyond belief. It wasn't. I think the rest of the military families were either
a. afraid to leave base
b. feel 'appreciated' enough on a normal basis to be suspect of any 'appreciation' day
c. didn't know about it
d. couldn't find it
Promised to be free barbeque lunch, kids carnival and rides and a static display of military machines- the amphibious stuff, some guns (the big ones you tow behind vehicles), and jeeps. And live muic. All of which has become the "military carnival" standard for all
And parking at the beach can be challenging on a normal day, so I fully expected to not be able to find parking. so we decided to take mass transit (aka the sprinter). We COULD have taken the bus from the strip mall next to our neighborhood (which is easy walking distance) and then transferred to the train, but frankly, I wasn't up for THAT much 'green living' and took our van to the transit station. And it would have added a good 45 minutes to the trip and that particular bus comes hourly and I know we'd miss it by 5 minutes and be stuck waiting for the next 55 minutes to get it again.
Anyway.. we took the Sprinter, which of course was fun and excited for the kids. And fun and exciting for the kids means they get loud. Very loud. Announcing every train crossing, palm tree and rock they see. I'm sure the others on the train were thrilled to death to have us on there. Even after our little pep talk about grownups without kids don't like to hear kids on buses or planes announce everything they see.. it was no no avail. It actually made it worse because about 7 minutes before we reached our final destination, Sonia got the concept and for everytime one of the other 3 exclaimed what they saw, Sonia would say "GUYS! SHHH! NOT SO LOUD! at least 2x as loud as the other 3.
Anyway.. the kids had a good time. I'm glad not too many people came out because the lines weren't horrible. There was no line for the lunch and I had no fewer than 3 "princesses" offer to help me though the line. They had the "miss Oceanside" and 4 other "miss-somethings" there from Oceanside. Kayla called them princesses because they were wearing crowns.
Top picture has Sonia at the bottom of the slide and JM at the top right. Bottom has JM on the slide. Sure I could have loaded 1 of all the kids, but they all look the same essentially. You have my word they all went down more than I can count.
This is before it got moving. I thought they'd be afraid. They had a blast and went twice. They'd have gone more but it had the longest line and there's only so much dizzying spinning you can try to photograph and watch.
On the way there. You can kinda see Joey. He's behind the stroller. He was clinging to the sidewalk furthest from the tracks in case he was going to fall. His brother, on the other hand had no fear and was nominated as 'most likely to fall on the train tracks' by his peers.
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