Missing Family

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After a whole week of Andrew's brother and family staying in our home visiting and hanging out all together. I miss it. I miss having our nephews playing around with Kara. I miss cooking dinner with my Sister-in-law, Kyoung. I know Andrew misses Jordan his big brother. As kids they didn't get along too much, being brothers, but now they are both grown up, married, and daddy's. They actually like each other now. Jordan even borrowed some of Andrew's shirts to wear to his conference while in town. Family is always nice to have around. Even if it was for just the one week and one day, it was a nice visit, wishing it could have been longer.

While our family was in town, we went to the Zoo, for free and just paid for the tram ride around. With the three kids, we had two strollers, which could not go onto the tram and we left the strollers off to the side to pick back up in the end. It is fall time where most of the animals were not really out and about to see. Too bad, and my favorite section is the giraffes they were all inside their cages and not out in the nature part. It made for poor photos to have them all inside behind bars. One area I have not seen before was the chimpanzee area. There are apes, chimps and one was so big looked like a gorilla! They all have a play ground of ropes, branches and tires to play from. Fascinating to watch them move from one of the area to the other. One of the chimps walked right up to the window where there was a ditch in the ground, and people got excited he was so close, only to watch him squat and pee. It was gross...but funny. Similar thing happened at the Hippo home. The hippo would swim into the water and towards the window people are all standing at to watch the hippo, and we would get all excited in watching the hippo up close swimming...one of the hippos faced away from the window and POOPED out 5 or so baseball size turds! YUCK! it was sooooo gross! Ahh nature!

We also went to the Botanical gardens. My favorite part was the Japanese gardens. Very Serene.

Saturday was their last night visiting and Halloween. All three cousins were dressed as M&Ms and we all walked around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. Kara was carried around in my baby backpack, she fell asleep about half way through.

Sunday was their last morning here before flying back home to New York. We went to have Dim Sum which is Chinese Brunch. Delicious but pricey. It could easily get out of hand with the bill because the servers come around with food on carts to pick from and you don't even know the price of anything, just choose this and that. The bill gets tallied up in the end, we were a party of 5 with 2 babies eating baby food and it came to about $85.

Now they are out in California for the Thanksgiving week and visiting with Andrew's folks. We are going out there over Christmas week and will miss seeing them this time around. It was a nice visit with them while it lasted. I look forward to seeing family in California for Christmas. This will be Kara's first time to the beach. I already told my mom to save up the bread heals for Kara to feed the seagulls with. I also want her to splash her feet along the shore line, as a wave comes up and captures her baby feet. Hopefully she won't be scared of the water.