Already a full day and it’s only noon.  Ish.  Later by the time I finish this post.

Up at 5am to get to the blueberry farm right when they opened!  (They’ve been running out by late Saturday.)  And some of us didn’t get any real sleep until almost 2 o’clock this morning.  Breakfast tacos on the way up, donuts and coffee on the way back as a reward for our hard work.  (So thoroughly sick of sweets now.)  Very, VERY glad we only had to park half-a-mile away; we saw some people nearly two miles out.  That’s a long walk to go pick blueberries, especially with little ones.  Sixteen pounds of berries, and nearly as much dirt on our feet.  And I shook twigs and leaves out of my hair when we got home.  We literally climbed into bushes, but we did find some of the better berries.  (Note to self: wear a baseball cap next time; will also solve the getting tangled in bushes issue.)   I’m a better blueberry-picker than I was last year, happily.  I realized there are different techniques for find the best of each different variety (different shaped bushes).  But they weren’t kidding when they said it’d been a rough season–much harder to find the ripe ones than last year.

Best moment: Sam entertaining us on the way home by singing Taylor Swift & Selena Gomez songs with a King Julian (Madagascar) accent.  Don’t ask me how she knows these songs, but it’s worth her learning all the words just to be able to do this.  I laughed till I cried– and I was never more grateful for stop-and-go traffic in my life.  I thought I’d never get my face unstuck.  And she just wouldn’t stop!  Trying to imagine what we must have looked like.  Five girls crammed in my Corolla, shrieking with laughter every few seconds when she hit the really funny parts.

Also, you don’t fully realize how nonsensical pop lyrics are until they are done with that voice.  They really are that dumb.

Now for the second part of this very long day: celebrating the birthday of a dear friend with our traditional visit to the beach and the Strand.  SO worth not taking a nap!