Moving to California and Labor Day weekend

Cars picked up on August 23, and we rented a car to take us to Scranton on Friday.

Laura says goodbye to friends as we leave for the airport.

Flew to San Jose on Friday, August 25, stayed overnight near the airport.  August 26, we moved into our house.  Dave rushed over to Walmart to pick up mattresses in a box that we had ordered and to buy pillows so we are comfortable for our first night in Fremont.  He also picked up a bed at a garage sale for Laura.   August 27, we explored the area and stopped at some garage sales.  Laura successfully begged for a skateboard.  She also met the girl next door who is a year older than her.

August 28, Dave started work and I registered kids for school.  We also got library cards for me and Laura and visited Laura's school.  Joshua was excited to find a huge manga selection in the public library (and his school library).

Tuesday, August 30, we went to Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda to get some end of season beach time.  Then on the way home we picked up Dave and stopped at a nearby bank to get cash so we can pay the driver when he delivers our cars the next day.

School started on Aug 31.

The first day was a half day for all kids and the first week was a half day for Laura.  We got our cars back on Sept 1 and on Sept 2, our bikes were delivered.  Which means that part of Dave's fun over the weekend was trying to put the bikes back together. 

We wanted to go to the beach while we still had beach-going weather, so we decided to head to Santa Cruz on Saturday.  We had to drop the rental car back at the airport and then we started on our way to Santa Cruz, but the traffic was so bad that we turned around and ended up at a pool in Cupertino.   As we were returning to Fremont, our car started overheating.

Sunday was still super hot (100+ degree temperatures) and we were worried about our van overheating, so we took the Vibe to Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda.

When were done at the beach we made a brief stop at the visitor center.

Iyer invited us and Anu to his house on Monday to see them before his oldest left for Northwestern University.  They treated us to a delicious lunch of Indian food.