Hayley has been enjoying her July.  Her normal Chinese summer school is working out well.  She's having a blast being reunited with her old school friends.  Christine was also able to have her own birthday lunch with the girls.

Hayley is also doing well with the academics.  She even was moved up a level in Chinese!  But the highlights for Hayley have been the field trips.  Berry picking and the movies were fun, but the real favorites were going bowling for the first time and then a trip to the NASA Ames space museum in Mountain View (near Moffett Field).

Hayley did take a week break to attend the Destination Science camp.  Hayley really enjoyed this week-long camp because every day she received some new gadgets to play with and take home.  They also spent the week building their own "roller coaster" which Hayley is very proud of.  She definitely wants to do the camp again next year.

During the NASA field trip Hayley was able to recognize a special robot that uses optical sensors because that was one of the gadgets she took home from the Destination Science camp!  Score one for knowledge!

This past weekend was the first birthday for cousins Lucy and Leigh!  Happy birthday, girls!  The party was a full family affair complete with huge 15 foot tall water slide, a roasted pig and a piņata.  Amazingly, no injuries resulted from any of those, despite multiple video cameras running to catch the action.  The slide was a little too tall for Hayley, who preferred her old whale slide and the twins' little pool.