SchoolHouse Moments :: Celebrating on the Water
Hurrah! School is officially over for the Hansen's here at the SchoolHouse Academy! Yesterday was our last day, and today we celebrated with a trip to Grandpa Mark's and Balboa Island. We started with a lovely ride on the Duffy, each of the kids taking a turn steering. Then we rode out to the seal lions and pelicans, found a parking spot on a public pier, and walked over to Ruby's (on the pier) for milkshakes and burgers (woo-hoo!). The kids just love watching all the fishermen catching smelt and mackerel off the pier, especially if a milkshake is in hand... After that, Grandpa Mark treated to Siena and Sage's first ferris wheel ride (my camera died before we could get a photo of that one - but for fans of Arrested Development, that's the balboa peninsula we were on, albeit one without the Bluff banana shack). I got to ride with them, which was a huge treat - I love ferris wheels! Then the kids all raced around the arcade trying to win tickets to trade for prizes they either don't really want (plastic from china) or shouldn't have (think pixie stix!), which made them incredibly happy. On the boat ride home we floated through a smack of jelly fish (I looked that one up). They were just beautiful, clear and floating, undulating up and down and so peaceful to watch. The kids? Not so peaceful, as they clamored from side to side on the boat, desperately trying to reach out and touch the "safe" side of the jelly fish. It was a fantastic impromptu nature study.
After we returned to the dock, the kids fished for a bit (nothing biting, which doesn't really bother Sterling, who has more patience than one would think), and then we tied bits of hot dog onto the ends of string and caught crab after crab... I told the kids that they can't make me fish with them, but they can't keep me away from catching crabs - it's too much fun!
The day was long and the weather perfect. It really was just the right celebration to the end of a well-done school year!
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