According to weather.com, it’s 75 in Cupertino right now. According to me, weather.com should get out of the weather business. I took the kids to a park this morning and thought we were all going to get heat stroke. I put Simon in the sand under the jungle gym (where there’s shade), and instead of running off like she normally would, Sophia stayed right with us. In the shade.
This has been a tough week.
We finally got air conditioning in the apartment (on the third day—if they hadn’t fixed it by then I was going to check into a hotel and let Darin work it out with Apple). But the apartment is on the third floor of the building with no elevator (haven’t these people heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act? it’s a new building!), and lugging my 25-pound sack of potatoes (named “Simon”) up and down the stairs multiple times a day isn’t going to happen. So when we leave the apartment in the morning, I have to find stuff for us to do until we go back in the late afternoon and wait for Daddy to get home.
This has turned out to be somewhat harder than I was expecting it would be.
For one thing—I know this is minor, but it’s indicative—where do I take the kids for lunch? If it weren’t for that three flights of stairs (six, actually, because each flight is divided into two sections), I might take them home, but I’m not doing that. So I have to find restaurants, and after a while the idea of giving your kids chicken fingers and french fries again begins to turn your stomach. So that’s been an adventure.
Haven’t found a preschool. Haven’t found a babysitter. Haven’t even gotten together with one of the groups of mommies I know is in the area (my fault—I lost the numbers and have to get them again).
We’ve had majorly ugly escrow-fu this week that I will discuss once the doctor says my blood pressure has regularized.
So, it’s been tough. I know that overall it’s worth it and in a few months I’ll be saying, “Yes, yes, I remember that slight hiccup in the road, nothing major.” But right now—things are hot all over.
(Oh, I forgot one thing: Simon has started walking! And now we’re in a place with no babyproofing. He careens all over the place, inordinately proud of himself. I can’t wait until we’re in the new house and he can learn the fine art of walking on grass!)
What do your kids like to eat?
There’s always P.F. Chang’s in Sunnyvale. 😉
Or, lots of groovy places on University Ave in P.A., like these — very near the P. F. Chang’s at Stanford.
-Scott
Oh, one of the things Darin and I were very excited about when thinking about moving back to this area was the quality of the Chinese restaurants — most of the Chinese restaurants in LA sucked, and the good ones were pretty much on par with middle of the pack ones here. (Which is why we went to PF Chang’s so much — better than most.)
So there are plenty of Chinese restaurants to hit around here.
I don’t know how often I want to drive all the way to Stanford though. 🙂 I’m sure I can find better ones close to our temporary digs in Cupertino.
Mandarin Gourmet on De Anza & Stevens Creek is great, but not so cheap. It’s been there since you last lived here, I think. I’ve heard good things about the dim sum place where Sizzler used to be on Bandley Dr.
-Scott
Hong Fu in Cupertino is excellent and fast too. Its near the corner of Stevens Creek and De Anza not too far from Apple.