Fun with Friends

We had some friends of ours come up in late July and stay with us for a few days. The kids all had a blast, and there weren't many hurt feelings (not too shabby for 6 kids and 4 days). We did tons of fun things. One of my favorite things was heading into Lodi and discovering Micke Grove. There is quite a bit to do there, but we looked around the Japanese gardens for a while, had a picnic lunch under a tree, learned what an oak gall is, and then went to the little zoo there. It is so awesome at the zoo, you can feed the Lorakeets, which are super brightly colored birds similar to a parakeet. Our friend had 4 birds on her at one time. Everyone had at least one bird land on them, but with the little kids tender skin and how sharp the birds claws were, L and one of their little girls didn't like the birds on them.