Heat Wave Update

We had a high temperature of 104 degrees each of the last 3 days (Friday,Saturday,Sunday). Friday the kids were kept indoors at camp for the afternoon, and I tried not to venture outside too much at all. Saturday Joel took Ben and Rebecca to our neighborhood pool in the morning, but was home by noon, and we spent the rest of the afternoon indoors until dinner time, when we ventured out to Chili's with some friends and then to Pinkberry. It was still 100 degrees at dinner time, so even just being outside that short amount of time was kind of miserable.

Yesterday we headed south to our friends' Quimby and Sue, where we spent the morning sitting in the baby pool of their development drinking beer. Their development has this big baby pool that is like 2 1/2 feet at its deepest probably. The 4 kids (our older two and their two) mostly played in the baby pool (it has a slide and some water spray stuff and a swing thingy) so we did not feel like disastrously bad parents for sitting in the baby pool and drinking beer. Caroline we passed around from lap to lap, and since I'd forgotten her hat, she wore a onesie tied around her head. At around noon, when it became too hot even for this pasttime, we headed back to their house for lunch.

All in all, we managed to survive the heat wave. Today I believe the temperature is "only" going to be in the high 90s, though my phone says it's going to be 100, but weather.com has a differing opinion and says only 97. Either way is better than 104... hoping for some cooler (ie low 90s) temps later in the week!