how hot? well at the beaches it hit 84 degrees
{that's a good 10 degrees warmer than normal}
inland i think it got just over 100 degrees.
san diego's weather is moderate - the average temperature is 72 degrees.
but every few years, we have these heatwaves that cause us to whine.
part of it is we are simply not used to the heat,
but i think an even bigger part is many homes don't have air conditioning,
so when mercury rises, it's really uncomfortable.
the last real heat wave i remember was in the summer of 2007.
i remember it well because i was pregnant with scoutie and
was already uncomfortable so the heat made it worse.
my doctor encouraged me not to work right up to the day {like i did with finn},
so i took 2 weeks off before my due date.
i literally lived in my bikini and sat in finn's pool shaded with an umbrella.
finn was 3 years old then, and on the days he wasn't in preschool,
he sat there in the pool with me or played in his sandbox
{which also had an umbrella over it}. he even napped outside on a sheet while i read.
those were my last 2 weeks of peace and quiet before #2 arrived.
anyway, i digress. this past week/weekend was just as HOT!
i spent half the day saturday indoors a salon and shopping,
but sunday the boys insisted we go to la jolla cove because that
is the activity scoutie pulled out of our Sunday Fun jar.
i think every tourist in town must have had the same idea
because there were hundreds of people squeezed into that little cove.
still, it was nice to be at the water and to watch the boys explore the caves.
this is something they've done before, but scoutie was too young to remember.
we also enjoyed watching the sea lions who share the cove with us humans.
every so often we'd hear the lifeguard yelling through their megaphone
for someone to "stay back" when they were getting too close to them.
finn's comment, "it's probably a teenager" {and it usually was}.
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| scout's beach ritual - getting buried! |
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| beach boys, scout {5} + finn {8} |
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| the caves at low tide |
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| from the cave, c + scout swam to this rock {finn went earlier} so that's how the boys and i stayed cool this past weekend.
~ oh, c and i just signed up for the annual bootcamp challenge.
i'm pretty excited about it, and tried running sat am but it was too darn hot i turned around after mile 2 and came home soaked with sweat.
the race is a few weeks away yet {sept. 29th} so i have some time,
but as of now, i'm not remotely ready. |
