This weekend was spent catching up with the cousins (and their parents, of course). Saturday morning the girls and I went for a quick mountain trail hike (our hotel is very near the Catalinas) to give the family some time to sleep in on the weekend morning. Afterward we met cousins for lunch, followed by a movie (Karate Kid -- one of the better 80s remakes I must say, recommended), and a cookout at my aunt's.
Today we attended mass at grandma's parish, followed by a short stop at her grave site. We miss her very much. I can't believe it has been four years almost exactly since she passed. The girls got some swimming in before a lunch with even more cousins. Tonight we had a Father's Day dinner with nearly the whole local family. Always a good, if not interesting, time.
By the time dinner wrapped up, and everybody headed home, the girls and I weren't quite ready to turn in yet, so we caught an evening showing of Toy Story 3. All I can say is excellent. It was a nice follow-up to the first two, and a good way to end the story.
I rewarded the girls with a stop at Dairy Queen on the way back to the hotel because they didn't gripe even once when we discovered I had mistakenly parked on the wrong side of the mall. When our movie let out, the mall doors had been locked for maybe ten minutes, which meant we had to walk all the way around the mall to get to our car. The girls were surprisingly cooperative. Thus the reward.
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