Mother's Day Weekend

Grandma visited us in May and we took her and Ryan's cousin Tony up to Mendocino and Anderson Valley to celebrate Mother's Day and to tour annual Anderson Valley Garden Show. We visited six private gardens that participated this year. Most of them were nestled on the ridge of the hills overlooking the valley. The view was spectacular and the gardens were serene without much human intervention to their natural beauties. The boys had the greatest time searching for lizzards, and garden snakes and exploring the open space.








This time, we stayed at a vacation rental - Glendeven Inn in Mendocino so that we could all hang out in the common areas in the evening. Tony even got a lovely kiss from a llama from the property and he claimed that the llama had a crush on him! Across the street from our lodging, there were two trails leading to the beach. Af first, I was hesitant to take Ryan along but to my surprise, Ryan was able to walk with us on the narrow path with bushes and flowers brushing against us for quite some time. I think the amount of tricycling at school is paying off. Without doubt, Mendocino is Ryan's favorite vacation spot. He constantly asks me when we will visit it again. I'm sure it'll be some time soon!