Beach Weekend

Back in February K-bao enjoyed a couple of days at the beach with sister C-bao. The weekend was sunny but not particularly warm, so as a precaution K-Pop insisted on the girls wearing their full winter coats.

Not exactly beach attire

K-bao led her sister in singing, dancing and digging ditches. Finding water under the sand was met with as much excitement as one might expect in a discovery of fine pearls.

The presence of the ocean brought to mind of course one of K-bao's favorites, Rachel Platten's Fight Song, and she quickly broke into the relevant lyrics: "Like a small boat, on the ocean...sending big waves, into motion..."

Here she demonstrates how to create a tower of sand, and promptly delegates the task to sister C-bao.

Overall, the first day was fun enough that the sisters made a return trip the next day to do pretty much exactly the same thing.

Saturday

A typical Saturday for K-bao.

1. Wake up earlier than the household. Burst into sister C-bao's room, rousing everybody. Convince sister to jump out of bed and begin running around raucously.

2. Plead for sugary cereal for breakfast. Get turned down. Handed a bagelwich on the way to her soccer game.

3. Join her school club team, the Lions, for the first soccer game of the new season. Score a couple of nice goals. Enjoy a ton of snacks (madeleines, clementines, yogurts, juices) after the game, which appears to be the point of the whole thing for the majority of the girls.

4. Head to the chess club downtown. Play a couple of games with K-Pop. Lose game 1 due largely to watching every other game going on in the club other than her own. Dominate most of game 2 before losing concentration in the endgame.

5. Visit the mall for a late pizza lunch, followed by clementines and froyo. (After stuffing a half clementine in her mouth in one bite, exclaim loudly, "Don't think that's aggressive - I've had a whole clementine in my mouth before!")

6. Walk around the streets of San francisco. Create altogether too much noise with sister C-bao while playing with balloons and striking silly poses.

7. Shop for groceries. Serendipitously run into a kindergarten classmate. Create havoc (such as breaking into a spontaneous limbo dancing routine using checkout counter equipment).

8. Come home, quick shower, quick dinner and bedtime routine. Another full day tomorrow!