Valerie

After the day we had yesterday, Wanda (Valerie's mom) put us out of our misery by inviting us over for a play date in lieu of going to Sea World (see note to self in prior post).
The girls hadn't seen each other since last we traveled through here on our way to the Bahamas in 2007 so it was great to see how much they had grown. Valerie is tall and completely bilingual (English and Spanish) and has three older brothers (Jonathan, Brandon and Diego) who Jack loves to play with. And she loves doughnuts as much as Makena. They have sooo much in common.
We had a delicious lunch at a local Chinese restaurant.
More doughnuts and soda may or may not have been consumed.
And at the insistence of the boys, we headed back to the house so that they could resume their nerf gun shoot-out battles.

We said goodbye after an eight hour playfest. Makena fell asleep on the way home which gave me some quality hang-time with Jack.

Thank you, Wanda, for a wonderful and relaxing visit. The kids had a blast.

Is- catching my breath.