We can breathe again

The Delta breeze has sprung back up giving us pleasant dry weather and no more smoke. The sky is blue again. Unfortunately it is supposed to heat up by next week, but at least we're having a little breather.

This week Owen is in a science day camp at the local science museum (Explorit). He seemed to enjoy it yesterday.

The kids are starting private swimming lessons - a friend and I interviewed a bunch of students and hired someone to do lessons since the lessons through the city or other ones offered locally didn't seem to be doing too much. We started yesterday afternoon and it seemed to go pretty well. The teacher has access to an apartment complex pool that is little used and it seems like it's going to be a good place to do it. Plus there is a hot tub there, which they loved, and it is, of course, free, another big bonus.

A couple of kid stories:
At Yosemite, we were staying in the shadow of Half Dome - Curry Village was built right near it. There was a picture in the paper this weekend of a woman climbing Half Dome (which is almost vertical) who had had a heart transplant several years before. Dan showed it to the kids since we had just seen the mountain. Owen said, "Wow, that's amazing! That woman could climb Half Dome even though they cut out her heart and gave it to somebody else!"

Douglas also cracked me up this week by telling me, "Mom, I got a sprained idea."