We followed Aislinn's AAU basketball team to two tournaments...the first in Phoenix, AZ (which surprisingly, we did not take any pictures...I think it was too hot to even think about it...109 degrees!!! My brain was melting) and then on to San Diego, CA (where the above pictures were taken, and a much more reasonable temperature of about 80 degrees).
In Phoenix, we spent as much time as possible as close as possible to any air conditioning we could find. It was hot! hot! hot!!! Frank, Mackendra and I spent the day at the waterslides. It was a blast, and it did manage to keep us reasonable cool.
When we reached San Diego, we spent a full day at the beach (where Frank and I proceeded to get slight sunburns, even though I was running behind an annoyed Mackendra, reminding her and bugging her to put on sunscreen...she didn't and still didn't get burned...darn kids and their resilient skin!) We also spent a full day (9am-11pm) at the San Diego SeaWorld park. It was a blast and we loved all the shows and especially the new roller coaster "the Manta". I think Mackendra went on it 4 times.
Aislinn has been playing a ton of basketball, and her team is doing quite well. They only had 8 players for Phoenix and then 7 for San Diego. They have been winning most of their games and Aislinn has really progressed and matured as a basketball player. She has two more days of basketball this summer and then she will be ready for a few days off. She really loves her team, they are a bunch of great girls. And Angie, their coach, is learning a lot and doing a great job as well. I can bet she is looking forward to the summer being over as well though.
We have the rest of today (Monday) and then we fly home on Tuesday night. It has been a great vacation and because Aislinn has spent all of her time with the team, and Mackendra has been staying with us, we've had a great time hanging out with her. A lot of "Mommy and Daddy" time for the little one.
It is surprising that it is only the end of July...I've felt that with all the fun and activities we've packed into the last few days, that it could very easily be the end of the summer. But...we have all of August to finds more fun things to do.
Enjoy the following video...
And have a great summer, yourself.
Love Tanya
