Fall

Fall weather is here, there is a chill in the air and the leaves are falling off the trees. Life is moving along at the usual pace around here.
Ciara started Kindergarten in September and is settling in to her new lifestyle very well. There are remodeeling the school so they are in a temporary location now, which is closer for us. Ron walks her to school everyday for an 8.30 start. There are 3 Kindergarten classes altogether, she is in Mr. Coleman's class, we do not here much about what happens in the classroom but more about her bathroom breaks, eating in the school cafeteria and recess. She is enjoying a new sense of independence, especially that there is no "mommy" to say no to cookies and chocolate milk for lunch at the cafeteria. We are trying to restrict too much cafeteria food, hopefully the novelty will wear off soon. School gets out at 1.30, she goes to the after school care program run by the city. they pick her up, they go swimming 3 days a week and do all sorts of activities including getting some homework done, it is great.
My mom "Grandma Joan" and sister "Auntie Aileen" were also here for a week in Sept. We had a really nice week with them, we went bowling for the first time with the girls, Fiona was funny, she could barely lift the bowling bowl and it took about 5 mins to make it down the alley, by time it got there it had no momentum to knock a bowl over. Fiona and Ciara also had a trip out for lunch and a movie and Ciara got to go get her nails done with Auntie Aileen. One of the days Aileen and I ran/walked from Fishermans wharf in SF to Sausilto, it is 8 miles, our route took is along the water to the Golden Gate Bridge over the bridge and down to Sausilto. We were very proud of ourselves as we did it faster than we expected (1 hr 40 mins). We met my Mom in Sausilto had lunch and took the ferry back. We are going to try amd make that an annual thing and and beat our time, but my brother kindly reminded us that might be hard to do as we are getting older.
The kids are starting to get excited about Halloween but their Daddy is even more excited and has started to get his props ready for Halloween. That is about it for what has been going on around here..