Day 186 and 187 Fresno and San Fran

Day 186 - We were fortunate to have time to drive down to Fresno and visit our friends, the Moates, who moved down to Fresno last year.  The kids were so excited to get to see Dane and Brooke again.  We got some extra driving time through the farm "backroads" since we failed to follow the instructions of our GPS.  It was a nice change of scenery and a fun detour and only ended up adding a mile or two to the trip.  There were thousands and thousands of trees, olive and/or almond was my best guess.  Fresno brough us the high heat we were looking for.  The kids pretty much lived in the pool and the adults pretty much lived on the shaded porch complete with a mister.  It was so comfortable with the mister, but we didn't realize how great it was until we occassionally stepped into the sunshine and realized how flaming hot it was outside.  We had a relaxing time to just sit around and talk, it was so so fun.  Eventually everyone took a dip in the pool, even the adults.  I did some laps to get in a little workout.  I practiced some freestyle strokes, something I am sure I looked like a gomer doing.  I wanted to test the waters so to speak and see if I could swim this way in case I do actually try a triathalon some day.  This was a great place to "practice". It seems so intimidating showing up at a public pool and jump in there with those people who have been swimming laps for years.  Later in the evening, the kids got treated to a pinata and a bicyle ride around the neighborhood.  They decided to all sleep in Dane's room, which didn't last too long.  It was cute to see them gathered around a book to read for themselves before bedtime.

Day 187 - The kids got in more swim time in the morning and I did some laps to tire myself out. Eventually, we had to get back on the road and the kids were so sad.  We drove to San Francisco and visited Uncle Bob on the way home.  He wasn't in his room when we got there.  Fortunately, we found a park just a block away where we were able to burn some time.  There was a really cool sculpture in the park (below).  Most of the anatomical parts of the body were featured on the sculpture and all with some metal part that represented the body part perfectly, even muscles, rubs, strands of hair, etc.  Uncle Bob had just moved into a new place the day before, so we checked out his new digs and took him out to dinner.