We had a great weekend – lots of stuff done and most of it out of the house..

It seems that we do have some form of ant infestation, but only in the cupboard under the stairs so mummy has zapped them all – we’ll wait a few days before popping the toys back in there 🙂

Mummy has also been v busy checking out the local schools for Elly – presently a place called Stratford School in Los Gatos is favourite, and as a bonus is only 2 miles from home. We will have to pay for it, but it seems that we will have to pay regardless as free schooling does not arrive until the kids are almost 6 years old….

Hopefully we will both go and see the place before we head out to Florida on Saturday.

5 mile bike ride this evening to check out the school etc – nice and flat for a lot of the roads around here, and at 6:30pm, they are very quiet 🙂 Was nice at 72 degrees as well 🙂  The weather has definitely turned for the better here in Los Gatos

Had to buy a new disk drive for the Wii this week since the previous one just stopped working – Elliot was clearly non-too-happy about losing the ability to play motorbikes Wii 🙁  75USD found a suitable replacement – downside – the games were lost – fortunately new friend Jason has a handy supply so we are back online…. Thanks Jason

Facebook is an incredible tool – have found and contacted a heap of old friends this week – would never have been able to do that without the use of this tool.

We went to Gilroy Gardens yesterday – a sort of mix of Alton Towers and Disneyland for families with children under 12.  The weather was hot – not seen a blue sky that was quite so vivid for a long time, and 30+ degrees Celsius really helped as well 🙂 There are some photos in the gallery…

We bought tickets that mean that we can go back as many times as we want for the rest of the year – tickets we 70USD each and we didn’t need to buy one for Olly – too young to need one 🙂 Did we have fun? Ask the little one in the new wheels….

We went with new friends, Amy, Jason and their 3 year old, Charlotte.  We seem to (OK so Simon) have not offended them, since they came back to ours for a curry for tea, and Elliot and Charlotte played for about 3 hours.  They had a great time – in fact little Charlotte was none to keen on going home, as she didn’t want to leave her new friend 🙂  Elliot even offered her a cuddle as they left ….. wow !

The today (Sunday) we got up, gave the boys their breakfast and then saddled up on the bikes and cycled to Hobees restaurant for bunch.  We established on the journey (approx 3.5 miles) that Vicky’s bike, while pretty, is short of gears (only has 3) and the back-pedal brakes are less useful on downhill races.  Following a fab brunch, we head out and down the Los Gatos Creek Trail into Vasona Park, where we stopped for a short play on the climbing frames, and then on again down the trail and back to the house.  The total journey was just under 8 miles we believe and took us under 4 hours including the two stops.  An Olly actually fell asleep between the park and home so we guess it must be pretty comfortable in there 🙂

We are strangely looking forward to more similar bodily punishment later in the week.

We used the trailer as a pushchair around Gilroy Gardens yesterday, and it is MUCH easier to push than he existing Jane pushchair that we have – obviously it is larger but is around the same weight.  It is a bit more painful to get in the car as the wheels have to come off and it fills the boot space in the X5.

Tomorrow we are heading to a park in Saratoga for a BBQ for lunch with the “Brit mums” group – we are hoping for good weather again – the last two days have been in the 80’s and we have not seen clouds 🙂

We decided that we can’t cope without printed materials in the house, so have purchased a all in one inkjet printer from Epson – wireless as well – which is nice 🙂

Oliver would not fill with food tonight – we went out to the Black Angus Steakhouse – he ate his dinner, a bit of Elliot’s dinner and a lot of mummies dinner…. He would appear to have got his appetite back 🙂

We are starting the Memorial weekend (that’s right folks, it is NOT a Spring Bank Holiday weekend) by heading to the Gilroy Park with some new friends that Vicky and the boys have been spending some time with.

Then we are heading to Hobbies for breakfast on Sunday 🙂

And we have a BBQ in a park in Saratoga on Monday 🙂

Ace weekend coming up – hopefully we will get some cycling in as well 🙂

Daddy has been in Houston, Texas this week – apparently it was 95 degrees F, and every time he stepped outside, if felt like he was stepping into an oven… 🙂 Accordingly it will be just as bad, erm, good in Florida – only 10 days to go…..

We have ordered (and now received) our HD DVR – Sky HD for the UK readers – it is now installed and operational so we can now record TV shows while we are not here – all for $15 per month – bargain.  We obviously now need a new TV to go with it – then we can move the existing TV down into the lounge area so that we can relax down there once the kids are in bed etc.

We have also taken delivery of Olly’s new pushchair – this is the one that converts into a car seat that is allowed on planes etc – should make life a bit easier when travelling – will be testing it out in the next couple of weeks 🙂

Got a long weekend ahead of us this weekend – Memorial Day.  Hopefully the weather will improve and the rain will go away – then we can get out on the bikes – with Daddy being away this week, we have not used them since we picked them up last week – got to make sure that they don’t continue being nice things that decorate the inside of the garage.

Sat watching Transformers in HD so time to go….. 🙂

We were out for BBQ on Saturday, and to the beach today and the weekend has just vanished on us 🙁

We had a couple of guys come round this morning to help lift the wardrobes etc into Olly’s room.  Simon has fitted the feet on them etc and fixed the door that he broke, and now all Olly’s gear is finally in his room.

Just got to get rid of the 4 pallets and the pile of packaging that was wrapped around all our gear.  We have no idea presently how we should rid ourselve3s of the crap, so are hoping that the lads that came around to help shift the wardrobes will come back to us with details of how to get rid of the stuff.  Failing this, Simon will be busy searching for a dump site next weekend….