Labor Day in Rancho Cordova

The last couple of years, we have always travelled down to Monterey for Labor Day weekend and stayed with our friends the Gieslers.  Well, we changed things up this year and they came to us.  It's nice that we can actually have visitors stay with us because we have the space now. 

While they were here, we obviously had to watch the football games of Dave and Jordan's teams.  Yipee (insert sarcasm)!  We were able to get them away from the TV so we could take the kids to a splash park.  We BBQ'd that night and played games once the kids went to bed. 

On Sunday we went to church and then surprised the Gieslers by also inviting our friends the Wiests over, who we knew in Monterey as well but have since moved up north by us.  We had dinner and chit-chatted a lot.  It was nice to catch up.

On the last day of their visit, we headed to the Fish Hatchery.  It is the perfect place for children.  They loved it even though it rained on us and then poured on us.  Thankfully, they have a visitor's center where we waited out the storm.  But it kept raining so Dave went and grabbed some umbrellas so we could finish feeding the fish.  P.S. Right now is an even better time to go to the Hatchery because the Salmon ladders should be up and running.  So cool.
 

Jordan and Sunshine feeding the fish.

 

It was nothing but squeals of joy from Ames and Jocey.

 

 

Sitting in a fish egg.

 

We parted ways at the Hatchery and our friends headed home.  It's always fun to see the Gieslers and we can't wait for next Labor Day!