balboa park @ balboa pier... a long lost location... a childhood memory brought back to life with sunday's pirate party. our gabel transformed into "jake" the pirate and he and his cousins partook in a treasure hunt complete with an old map and a good ol' pirate's trunk chock-full of candy! they played hot canon ball (like hot potato, except with small plastic bowling ball) and steal the booty (a captain is blindfolded... kids sneak up to steal his trunk)! good pirate fun was had. once again grandpa created an amazing birthday cake and into the late afternoon there were s'mores at the pits for all. it doesn't get much better than that.
side note: the ER visit from midnight to 3am that morning with inconclusive tests for an inconsolable baby was uncool... but by God's grace we pulled off the kid's party of a lifetime. as an aside, hand-foot-mouth disease is going around so be on your guard matey.
