March is always a fun month. Weather warms up and drys out. Clare's birthday, Saint Patrick's day and our anniversary all makes for an eventful month. Several months ago I bought a groupon for high tea. I thought I could use it as a special birthday date for Clare. I didn't check the timing and the groupon expired the first weekend of March...not May. So the kids had a Friday off from school and I decided to try tea time?
It was a bit of a debacle getting to the tea shop. I thought it was in a hotel but I was wrong. We had a run around but made it to the tea shop eventually. It turned out to be pretty fun. We had a variety of little sandwiches and treats. All of the kids loved the crumpets and chocolate covered strawberries the most. It was a great adventure.
The tea shop was in Japan town (too bad Lorien didn't go with us). The building where the tea shop was had a theater and fashion shop. Each floor was labeled...we got a kick out of the sign for the third floor...
March has also given us some crazy weather, freezing one day, rainy, windy, hail or sun. Its been all over the place. One Sunday we could see a storm brewing around Mount Diablo so we decided to go up and see if it was snowing up there.
Sure enough, there was snow on Diablo. We even sat through a crazy hail storm while we waited in line to get into the park. The kids rolled down all of the windows and enjoyed the absurdity of snow falling from the sky in California.
We parked and took a little hike. My secret hope was that it would start snowing again while we were out in the weather. Spoiler alert, I got my wish, but it was very genie like in its fulfillment.
Right as we were at the summit of our hike, the very end (or top of the mountain) and had the farthest to hike back to the car...the wind whipped up...the clouds rolled in...and painful bits of frozen water started stinging any exposed skin. We got a storm alright, a frozen hail/snow storm. The wind was blowing and I was regretting my wish. The kids thought it was the best moment of the day!
If you zoom in on that picture up there you can see how bonkers the weather was. Behind the kids (down in the valley) it was sunny, green and calm. Up on the Mountain it was windy and snowy. You can see the snow being blown in every direction if you look at it against Wyatt's dark blue jacket. You can see the dark clouds at the top of the picture showing the storm right over our heads. It was totally bonkers. Incidentally, Will used this very photo to kick off his board meeting three days later. Just to show what he and his family had been up to that weekend.
Will and the kids had a snow ball fight on the top of the mountain. Colter thought it was funny to throw some snow at me while I took pictures.
Where was Lorien for all of this? She was on her school Orchestra field trip down at Disneyland. She came home on the day we went up to Diablo. She called us while we were on the mountain top to say she was at the high school and ready to be picked up. I'll have to post a few pictures of her trip. She had a great time.
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