Berry Good

From the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose (http://www.cdm.org/) to Gilroy Gardens (http://www.gilroygardens.org/), we finally found the time (and energy) to explore a couple of kid-friendly spots in the neighborhood the past couple of weekends. I'm not sure Kayla remembers all these places, but it really doesn't matter so long as she had as much fun as we did while we were there:


Taking a Spin in a Strawberry at Gilroy Gardens








Checking out some "produce" in Children's Discovery Musem





Revving up the possibly the world's slowest racer in Gilroy Gardens.


Today, we decided to take her strawberry picking and at a friend's recommendation, we headed to Gizdich Ranch (http://www.gizdich-ranch.com/) in Watsonville, about half an hour away. The strawberry harvesting didn't last long. After yanking close to 10 strawberries, Kayla decided pulling out weeds and sticking dirt in her mouth--to my horror--was just as enjoyable. It took probably us less than half an hour to fill our box with a little over four pounds of some the juiciest and sweetest (and biggest) strawberries I've ever seen. And I think, there's only about half of that left in the fridge. (I must have heard Kayla say "Strawberry good" and "more" a dozen times today; she ate at least 10 of them.)

But the highlight of the day (for her and us) had to the good, old-fashioned slice of apple pie with vanilla ice-cream and an equally tasty strawberry shortcake. No better way to end a morning than on a sugar high. :)