Apple picking + San Diego

This weekend while I was visiting my sister and her little family in San Diego, we went apple picking! I have been wanting to go this fall and am so glad we did. Gosh I just love fall.

My nephews were pretty excited to pick out pumpkins, and even more excited to fill our bag with apples. We didn't borrow an apple picking stick, and when we decided to, they were all gone of course. So we used kids and a 6'2" man instead. It was more fun that anyway. We all stood on the ground as my brother-in-law held up each little boy to stretch his little arms to grab the perfect apples we were pointing at. What a sight it was.

I am so happy that I was able to take a mid-term break to visit my family for the weekend. It is just so nice to get away and I miss them all the time.

Well, now that I'm home, here's to another full week of schoollwork and hopefully some cozy fall things!

I spent most of this weekend sick, but I didn't get to rest until yesterday. And even yesterday I was forced to go into work. Friday night was spent doing spontaneous things, like driving an hour away at 9pm for dinner at Sol Food (my favorite little Puerto Rican restaurant), and then stopping in Berkeley on the way home to wait in line for 30 minutes for a fresh baked cookie ice cream sandwich (I got snickerdoodle with salted caramel ice cream!) at a place called C.R.E.A.M.. Now, I didn't realize this before, but Berkeley is a sketchy place guys. This cookie place is in the university area, and you'd think that it would be nice since Cal is such a famous and highly regarded school. But it's not. As we waited in line on Telegraph Ave., a group of homeless stoners picked a fight with an older homeless black man right in front of us. I guess they were fighting over rights to play music in front of our line that wrapped around the building? I don't know, but one thing led to another and the black man ended up kicking the group's dog. He kicked the dog. You do not ever kick an innocent, sweet dog. Ever. 

Anyway, now you are probably wondering what kinds of weird places I go to in my free time, so I will get on to what you really want to see: the cookie sandwich.

On Saturday my sister and brother-in-law came to visit for the afternoon/evening on their way to visit my other sister. It was good to see them and my three nephews and niece. Remember them? From the birthday party we had on the bay in San Diego? They loved just hanging out in the garage with my dad and getting into all of his tools. Marly had a blast chasing after them on their scooters and we went for a  swim in the evening. This week is Matias' 3rd birthday, so we celebrated a little early with a cake.

I only snapped a few photos this weekend, but I really love this one. It is so sweet. 

What did you do this weekend? :)