Family Festivities. All Weekend Long.

Happy Monday!

I’m SO excited to take my parents to work with me and have them meet my RBM family. This weekend was the best best best.
My parents landed in San Jose late Friday night and we woke up bright and early on Saturday to go hiking.

The goal was to make my dad fall in love with northern California. Which I think I accomplished within the first 10 minutes of the hike. [He loves trees just as much as I do and was so excited to run around and climb them all. Because he’s a 10-year old at heart.]

After our hike, we grabbed sandwiches from Ike’s and then did a bit of grocery shopping. I love watching my dad when he’s on “vacation.” I like watching him wander up and down the aisles at the store, taking 5x longer than anybody else because he likes to stare at the packaging and ingredients of EVERYTHING.

That was clearly an exhausting thing for him so when we got home he took a nap. Meanwhile, I hung out with my Mom who cooked ALL THE THINGS!

And cleaned ALL THE THINGS! [Am I the luckiest human or what?]

Once my dad woke up, he had some chai and then we were off to watch Pitch Perfect 2. The first time I went to go see this movie, I fell asleep in the theater. [Friday nights are not ideal movie times.]

I didn’t get my dad to love Pitch Perfect like I wanted him to. But he sat through the movie so I’ll take that as a win.

Sunday:

We went to the Farmer’s Market downtown to pick up some produce and pastries.

The last time I was here with my Papa was 3-years ago when I first moved to NorCal.

After sampling all the cakes, Papa bought them all and then moseyed on down to Starbucks for chai time.

Once we got home, we quickly got ready and then drove out to Salinas to see this little monkey. [Banana in hand and everything]

Every reunion with him makes my heart so, so happy.

And he love, love, loved all the attention he was getting yesterday from everyone.

Lots of people to hug him and squeeze him and laugh at his jokes.

Lots of people for Dr. Veer Bajaj to operate on.

Last night, I was reminded that the best way to beat Sunday scaries is to spend time with the people you love the most. I had such a great weekend and I am more than ready to tackle this week because my heart is so happy and full! <3