Fun from the end of the week!

Yesterday the boys went to Universal Studios with the band and played at CityWalk!  And even better, they got to enjoy the park after they played.  It made for a very long day (wake up at 4 a.m. and home at midnight) but they had a great time!  We should be getting a link to the video and I will share that when it arrives.  

Here are a few photos from Olivier:

I got them to the bus on Friday and then I had a very long day with my leadership group, including visiting five farm locations in our county to learn about what they do.  At a strawberry farm (Okui) we got to taste test the three different varieties and learned why they have each type.  Let's just say we all were very happy with the very tasty taste testing!  And check out this strawberry!

One of the other farms we visited was a farm that raises Gerber daisies.  It was over 5 acres of greenhouses and we got to learn a lot about their operations.  And all the Friday before Mother's Day!  You could tell they were all thankful the end of the craziness was near!  I really enjoyed taking photos of the various colors!   

I was very thankful that Matt picked the boys up!  And this morning Anna and I headed to the barn nice and early.  The horse she was riding yawns a lot and we couldn't help but laugh!  This is a photo mid yawn!  Look at those teeth!  

And here is what the full yawn looks like!

The ride started out well and then Pixie went a bit wild!  She just started running and did a number of laps around the arena!  Yikes!  Anna kept her cool and focus and was able to stay on and helped Pixie finally realize she was fine.  She hopped off at that point and her instructor ended up putting Pixie into the enclosed arena for her to get whatever it was out.  She wasn't going quite this fast with Anna on but it was very fast!  

After all of that we went by the library to pick up a book on hold, and we saw Darth Vader and a Storm Trooper hanging out.  They were having an event but it still felt weird to just see them hanging out on the corner!