Senator Fong’s Gardens – a tues hiker hui tour

Ben spent most of the hike like this - running out in front with his Meyer lemon, on a mission! He would sniff it, throw it ahead, chase it, pick it up, run for 100 yards and repeat. Every now and then he could be persuaded to stop and smell a white ginger or try a mulberry. We all had a great time in the woods with our guide, Patsy.

Ben spent most of the hike like this - running out in front with his Meyer lemon, on a mission! He would sniff it, throw it ahead, chase it, pick it up, run for 100 yards and repeat. Every now and then he could be persuaded to stop and smell a white ginger or try a mulberry. We all had a great time in the woods with our guide, Patsy.

We have such a great group of intrepid moms of preschoolers! Today five of us went to Senator Fong’s gardens to take a tour of native plants and fruits. We could easily go again and hopefully absorb even more information next time. We are often very busy watching our little ones’ feet so we don’t get to look up as much as we’d like. But we did get to see a chocolate tree and watch our guide Patsy crack open the weird oblong yellow fruit to reveal this sticky, slimy white substance surrounding the cacao seed. We tried a taste of it – very sour and a weird texture. Kinda changes your thoughts about chocolate…a lot of work goes into harvesting the seeds and fermenting them before it remotely resembles a Hershey’s bar. After the hike we came home for me to work a bit while Ben napped, then off to after-school fun (yesterday it was dentist, today flu shots), playground, homework, dinner (the boys just wolfed and wolfed some salmon)…and then Dave found an odd bulge in his VW GTI’s tire. Oh no…hoping against hope it’s not another round of several hundred dollars of repairs. He’ll be taking the truck tomorrow because he has to go in early (like 4 am early) and we can’t have a blow-out happen on his way in. I’ll deal with the car because I can run anywhere we need to go. Cross fingers and toes…

One Comment

  1. Gramma 19 November, 2010

    Just a little more excitement? Driving with a little time-bomb-like bulge in your tire? Have a great day — hope the fix doesn’t cost you the US Mint!

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