We kicked the four-day weekend off with a Thursday night Gaucho basketball game with friends.
No school Friday means doing stadiums with Mom. I'm so fun, right?
Friday night dinner at Something's Fishy.
They have not changed up this hibachi fire routine since I was in college. It's the same fried rice egg trick with…
FIRE!
At this point we lost the other half of our table because the family that we didn't know next to us had kids afraid of the fire so they got up and left leaving the chef with 4 additional meals on the grill.
That is dinner for eight people that he ended up dividing between the four of us!
Food is still the same, just okay, but entertainment value for kids is a ten. I can't figure out why we came here all the time in college, maybe they were loose on ID checks because for the life of me this seems like the last place you'd want to go if you weren't under the age of 10.
Our chef loaded all this fried rice on our plates, rice for EIGHT people. Makes me want to gag just looking at it. Long story short, we are good on not going back to Something's Fishy for awhile.
Todd did catch a scallop in his mouth that the chef tossed to him. Yes, that happened…
Saturday morning my parents came up bright and early to catch Samantha's basketball game.
It was another nail biter for the Storm girls. They won 8 to 7 with Samantha contributing 2 of those 8 points.
Post basketball we headed to the harbor for lunch.
Brophy's!
A quick tour of the Maritime Museum that we discovered the week before (which by the way, you don't need to go to this museum two weekends in a row, once is enough) ;)
Later that afternoon, we headed to Hammonds Beach for an early evening Valentine's Day beach picnic/surf session.
Todd bumped into Russ in the water which is funny because I always wonder what guys are saying as they are floating in the water waiting for the next wave most likely next to people they don't know but it turns out Todd DID know someone ;)
Going in one last time before dark.
See Todd waving!
I tried to lighten the picture a bit.
This is how we really looked ;)
Such a fun night!
Here's some video of Todd catching some waves.
The next day we did the exact same thing at Mesa Lane.
On Monday, Todd had to work so I took the kids to Padaro Grill.
And then to Leadbetter since I wanted to keep the beach theme going ;)
Lolly looks thrilled to be carried by Thatcher...
Honestly, Lollipop can be kind of annoying at the beach because she sneaks away when we aren't watching to steal food from the other beach goers, so actually Thatcher is doing me a favor by removing her for the umpteenth time from raiding our neighbors food bag.
Here's the kids running towards me excited because these people were walking with birds.
Meet Coco, the parachute cockatoo!
No Thatcher, we are not getting a bird. Ever.
You are not getting one either, Samantha.
And finally, the holiday weekend came to a close with some sushi.
Our idea of a GREAT weekend!
