Last weekend Rob flew over to California to pick up Logan (a friend who used to work at Cutter, but moved to San Diego). Lil small world fact...he flew into the Carlsbad airport! It was a really cloudy day (so much so that he was worried he wouldn't get clearance to fly in), so Rob didn't do much sight-seeing from the sky, but Logan claims that the Aviara golf course is close to the airport! We went out for drinks with Logan on Monday and had a nice lil chat about the Carlsbad area...I felt very cool to know a lil bit about it. Hooray for California family! I am hoping to make the trip out there sometime soon too...but realistically it probably won't happen until I am no longer spending my weekends at Rolly Pollies. 

the Colorado river from the sky

Surprisingly enough, it cooled off a good bit at the end of last week. We were able to turn off the air, open the windows and enjoy a few overcast days. It even rained on Thursday! Delightful! We made a trip to the grocery for mac&cheese (because we discovered we were out after the water was boiling!) and I wore jeans, which was wonderful, but forgot my rain boots!! So sad. Rob had to give me a piggy back ride into the store so I could avoid the puddles. Lack of rain boots=critical error. Supposedly there is a mysterious monsoon season everyone out here speaks of in the really hot July/August summer and so hopefully the rain boot opportunity will pop back up. 

Too much information about the boots...moving on. I was a lil susie homemaker in the cool weather because I could turn on the oven without the apartment becoming unbearably hot! I baked coffee cake, lasagna and watermelon muffins (because I didn't realize until after I bought a big, big watermelon on sale that Rob doesn't like watermelon and needed creative recipes that would mask the flavor a baby bit). We have tupperware containers (yes, plural) of watermelon chopped up into nice lil pieces in the fridge if anyone would like to stop by and eat some! Also not so susie homemaker, but a nice lil update on what we've been eating all week...I ate a hamburger earlier in the week...a real beef one! Also I had a few bites of pickle and probably consumed my body weight of rice krispies. 

chowing down!/proof of the burger eating incident

On Friday evening, Rob and I grilled pizza. It seemed like a crazy lil endeavor but went surprisingly well! We just olive oiled up the dough and slapped it right on the grill...I thought it would slip between the grates and be ruined but nope, it grilled up deliciously. We topped it with tomato and garlic and basil and it was wonderful. (Usually we pile on the toppings when we make pizza in the oven, but it's much better with fewer toppings on the grill.) We enjoyed our pizza, Rob's new favorite beer, Fat Tire, and watched the Cavs game.

the dough grilling up!

Rob cutting the pizza/you can kind of see the finished product here.

Tomorrow I am getting together with Cara, my new friend from Rolly Pollies to lay out in the afternoon and then daycamp officially starts. I'm subbing classes at Rolly Pollies this week too, so it should be plenty of time with the pre-schoolers! Rob's instructing is going well...and we are both still counting down to coming home in June :) Miss and love you all, Sarah and Rob