This past week was our last in Northern California before moving to Utah. Scott and I were very busy with last minute tasks. On Saturday before the last week of school Matthew had a pool party all afternoon. We dropped him off and then took the other kids to lunch at Panera. In the restaurant Grant fell down and hit his head on one of the chairs and got a big bleeding head wound. We had to change our lunch plans and take him to the ER. Here he is waiting. I sat with Grant while Scott took the other kids for smoothies - and brought us some too.
The ER doctor determined that Grant would have to have staples to close the wound. He had a cut about and inch+ long in the back. We had to wait a long time at the ER. Here they put some topical numbing gel on Grant's head and we were waiting for it to take effect.
Grant ended up getting four staples in the back of his head and will have to have them removed in a few days. He was very brave about it even though it was scary. Poor Grant! It was not the kind of adventure we were expecting for our last crazy week. We covered his head wound with bandaids all week so as not to scare his classmates. And I'm not posting a picture of the staples on here so I don't scare YOU. It was a little bit gross.
Scott entertained three other kids in the car while I had Grant in the emergency room. It was over 90 degrees that day and the ER visit took about 3 hours.
After the ER visit but before picking up Matthew from his pool party we stopped at the garlic ducks statues in town. There were five little ducklings so we really missed Matthew. See some of us sitting on the Make Way for Ducklings statues in Boston HERE.
And while we were at the ER or sweating it out in the car, Matthew was at a super fun pool party for his class.
Lucky guy!!
Here's Grant feeling better later in the afternoon after ice cream and getting back to the hotel room
As one of our last Gilroy bucket list items we finally tried the garlic ice cream. We live in the "Garlic Capital of the World" in case you didn't know. They grow a lot of garlic in our town and during certain times of year the town does smell like garlic.
We tried vanilla garlic and chocolate garlic ice cream. The vanilla garlic ice cream just tasted like badly freezer burned ice cream that had started to take on the other flavors in the fridge (namely garlic). It was not good. The chocolate tasted a little better because the garlic flavor was less noticeable.
No one liked the garlic ice cream but now we can say we tried it.
Our house officially went on the market this week. We had a few little issues with people walking into our backyard and trying to get into the house to see it (put a lock on the gate now) and the smoke alarms going off randomly during the day. But now things are all good and hopefully we'll get some offers on the house. We've had a few agents tell our agent they will be submitting offers soon so we'll see.
I'm sad because we have 24 unripe baby peaches on our peach tree and a vine full of baby Concord grapes. I was hoping we'd get to eat some before we moved.
We made one last trip to Monterey for Ghirardelli ice cream
And walked on the beach a little
Grant wore his hoodie so his head wrapping wasn't as noticeable.
Here he is doing a little dance on the rocks.
And then we headed into our last week of school. It was a crazy week. One of the kids locked the bathroom in the hotel room and we couldn't get it open for a while. I was proud of myself when I thought to use the inside part of a pen to open it and it worked.
Matthew's class got to go on a fun field trip to Mt. Madonna - a state park and forest in the Santa Cruz mountains only 8 miles or so from our house.
They had a BBQ and some fun nature hikes.
Matthew had his last scout activity. His leaders bought him a super huge slurpee as a goodbye.
Wednesday the kids had a fun field day at school
Here's Matthew doing the sack race
Go Matt!!
Field day included some face painting
Then we had a dentist visit
After that we went to get haircuts. Grant's mustache survived the dentist. Grant was glad he didn't have to get a haircut that time because of his head wound. Bullet dodged! Then we got frozen yogurt.
Extra points to spot Grant's hand
We took Anna to her last activity day meeting
And went to settle up with the library while we waited for her.
The kids played with duplos in the library while we waited
Then we met Scott for dinner at Panera - the meal we didn't get to have earlier in the week when Grant got hurt. This time no injuries. That was a busy day!
Thursday I went in to see Scott's office in Sunnyvale. It was his last day in the office.
He took me out to lunch at a middle eastern place near his work. The food was so good!
flat bread and an array of dips
I got something like a middle eastern version of spanakopita
It was good but rich!
Assorted baklava for dessert
Thanks Scott! He knows what I like!
Scott's office
John was impressed with Scott's standing desk that could go up and down with the press of a button. After we left, Scott packed up the things in his office and had them shipped to his new office in Salt Lake.
Here are the kids and I waiting at school to pick up our school people on the second to last day of school. Our time is almost up!
Can you spot Emma peeking through?
Now we just need to make it through the last day of school!!
