28:2013 (Week of July 10 - 16, 2013)

• Teaching middle school summer camp program focused on Marine Science for week of July 8 - 12, 2013.


• Erika goes to the Sandy Hook beaches some more. I think you must notice she has at least five swimsuits, and when she doesn't have a swimsuit in the car, she goes in naked.


• Ah Yi visits for the weekend and on Saturday, we go to Bradley Beach Lobster Festival. Enjoy lots of food and music and even a ride; but it's so hot that everybody leaves sunburned.


• Sunday morning we pick wild raspberries (and eat a good half of the berries we pick along the way). Erika attends her first baseball game, the Minor League Lakewood Blueclaws team vs. Texas Crawdads. She notices their batting percentage is only about 0.33 and realizes that her own personal batting average isn't all that shabby. She thought pros hit the ball every time and was getting frustrated with herself.


• Erika's last day of school is Friday July 12th. From then on out, she's home with Mommy all day long!


• Monday we go to Dorbrook Sprayground in Colts Neck, an outdoor county-run waterpark with adjacent playground. But weather is hovering in the 90s and we leave within 2 hours.


• Erika spends time in our backyard playing with bubbles.


• On Tuesday, we go to Kidz Village, an indoor playroom with themed rooms (a diner, a grocery store, a hair salon, a nursery, a toolshed room, etc.) and Erika had fun for one hour before deciding that it was too much like school.