Day: June 5, 2009

Leilani and Stitch

As I said in my previous post… photoshopped a lot… Invitation for Leilani’s Summer Party

And Leilani? Does her kind of photoshopping

Mutti’s Visit – Pacifica and Big Basin

Saturday was the first day Andy got up again, after this photo the hat stayed on though…

Leilani loves beaches, cold or not.:

Leilani took this photo of us.

We had some leis that we wore on our trip back from Kauai – and for us it is custom to give the dried flowers to a river or the ocean, and with every flower that we throw we send a blessing, or a good wish or gratitude. Leilani loves this, just as the rest of us, but in order to teach her, I had to speak my blessings rather than thinking them… that was a piece of work for me. But I am glad I did it…. We also hopes that the flowers (or at least the blessings) would swim all the way back to Kauai :-)

Sunday we went to Big Basin to hike and see redwoods. Actually, we went to release a salamander that we found living under a planter on our deck. How he got there, we don’t know. But he left before we could take him to his new home.

We stopped at a Hwy 1 fruit stand to buy some strawberries on the way down. Sonja carried them, but they didn’t last long.

Andy spotted a beautiful foxglove…

…and then an even prettier fairy (yesterday I decided to veg out in front of the computer for the last 2 hours of the day and do nothing… I am sick again and so is Leilani, and we had a very stressful day, so I relaxed at night and photoshopped a lot…)

The purplest iris we found in a long time… outside of Maurice’s yard that is.

Finally we got to the redwoods:

We found this lunchspot near the Alder campground, and Leilani was not inclined to eat… we had to put every bite in her mouth because she liked the water and playing so much that she would not stop. It was also pretty hard to make her leave…

Lunch desert were lolipops

Later we went to Santa Cruz, to have Dinner with Lisa, but on the way we stopped at Natural Bridges where Mutti and I took a short walk while Leilani slept in the car and Andy played on the iPhone.