Some of July

The 4th was pretty low key this year. Lucia and Grandma were still in Idaho, so we just went and swimming, had tacos and then watched our neighbors fireworks.

Sylvia went to summer school every morning. She came home and watched Minnie’s Bowtique and became obsessed. Every day we would go pick her up from school and the kids would get free lunch. Then we’d go swimming at Grandma’s while the work was being done on the house.

The day Grandma and Lucia got back from Idaho-we went to Music Circus and saw Mary Poppins. I didn’t get any pictures of us together, but Deora and her granddaughter came with us. It was a cute show and we had a lot of fun.

Julio and I got a little getaway! Julio planned it-he bought the tickets to the New Order concert in San Francisco and booked the hotel. We left late Friday afternoon-leaving the kids with Sister Myers at Grandma and Grandpa’s house (they went to the Fair). We got to the city and checked into our hotel and then took the Bart downtown to the concert. We ate at a little diner before the concert, so we got there just as New Order was playing their first song. Walking into the venue, I got hit with a wall of marijuana smoke. It was like walking into a time warp-people in their 30’s and 40’s walking around dressed like they did in the 80’s. It was weird, but we had fun.

Saturday, we went to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. It was fascinating-it was owned by a flamboyant widow who was told that the souls of anyone who died by a Winchester rifle were haunting her, and in order to avoid these souls, she would have to continue building and adding on to her house until the day she died. So that’s what she did-there were doors and stairways leading to nothing, windows in the floor and ceiling, secret passageway-a séance room-the house is reportedly haunted. We had a great time away-if only it lasted longer….

We were not allowed to take pictures inside the house, only outside.