Out and About in San Jose

Saturday started early with Tommy at Baseball and he has improved such a lot since last year.

On Friday evening Fraser and I had to mark the lines on the Soccer pitches that would be used by Eleanor's teams on Saturday morning but we could not do both Soccer and Baseball so the duties were split. Tommy won his Baseball but Eleanor lost her Soccer match

He certainly looks the part.

This was followed by a long walk and some Geocaching. I was completing my Umbrella Walk as I missed it back in Langholm and we managed to walk the required distance and get 3 Geocaches

These Californian Poppies are everywhere. 

Celebrating a Geocache find. 

For this Geocache Tommy had to crawl under some bushes and we could not have reached it without him

In the evening we went to Kelly & Brads for a BBQ. Good food and loads of kids having fun.

Gaye with our host Brad

Emily and Elliot

Arrival in California

We soon get into the way of life in California and this is our first full day here. Today (Saturday) Eleanor is off to tennis lessons in Saratoga. She loves tennis and having had a series of 4 lessons to introduce her to the game is keen to sign up for many more.

Its all about learning to control the ball. 

After the tennis we headed to the Library which is surrounded by an orchard and all the trees are just coming into blossom. 

This was the welcome party that met us on Friday afternoon when we arrived from San Francisco airport. Leslie and the kids with neighbour Kelly and her children plus another wee boy from the street.  

Eleanor had been sent Hannah's hand me down PJs from Auntie Fiona so she had to wear them for bed tonight 

Granny Gaye as popular as ever with her grandchildren 

Elliot loves his food but is a messy eater