Saturday, Jul 31
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Stephanie suffered a fracture in her fibula during the first game of the San Diego Classic. We first thought it was a bad sprain, but we took her to an urgent care office that night and the x-ray showed a fracture. Stephanie stayed in San Diego for the rest of the tournament, and we went to an orthopedist the following Monday. The ortho confirmed it was a fracture, and Stephanie is now in a cast for the next six weeks.
As part of our trip to San Diego for the San Diego Classic, the El Segundo High School Girls Basketball Team had lunch at Seau’s Restaurant in Mission Valley.
The girls punked their coach by telling the waitress it was her birthday.
Ron, Stephanie, and Morgan ran the Run For Education, which is a 5K run through the streets of El Segundo. This is the second year Morgan has run the race; she gets extra credit for PE when she runs, so there’s some motivation for her. Ron and Stephanie have run this for several years.
It’s a hilly course, with a steep uphill grade about two-thirds of the way through on Sycamore Ave between Center Street and Maryland Ave. The race is sponsored by the El Segundo PTA.
It’s once again the season for selling Girl Scout Cookies. This year’s new variety is Thank U Berry Much, a shortbread type cookie with dried cranberries. Fortunately, since Stephanie isn’t participating in Girl Scouts this year, we don’t have to worry about selling quite as many cookies. However, Iris is the cookie chair this year, which is a lot of work.
Morgan left for Outdoor Science School (OSS), a five day camp experience for sixth graders at El Segundo Middle School held in the Malibu canyon area. Students have the opportunity to learn about different ecosystems by exploring the nearby tide pools as well as the canyons.
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Morgan invited her basketball team and some friends from school to a sleep-over birthday party. The plan was to have a scavenger hunt the next day, so they started off by splitting up into teams, and each person made a t-shirt with their team’s color as part of the main design. Iris made a big pot of spaghetti for dinner.
Coincidentally, Santa Claus came through the neighborhood, escorted by a couple of police cruisers. He stopped at a nearby corner, Morgan got to tell him what she wanted for Christmas, and the girls all got a group shot with him.
We all then went to El Segundo’s Candy Cane Lane Luckily, Michelle Olson volunteered to drive so we wouldn’t have to try and shuttle all of the kids in two cars. Candy Cane Lane was spectacular, as always. Afterwards, we drove over to Yogurberry, where everyone got to make their own frozen yogurt dessert.
The next day, the group broke up into their teams. Iris had come up with some really good goals for the scavenger hunt, including picking up an item at Airport Cleaners in El Segundo, getting their picture taken with a Rite Aid employee, finding out the price of a chicken taco at Fantastic Cafe, and getting a hand stamp from the El Segundo Library. It was a fairly long scavenger hunt, and both teams came back pooped.
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The El Segundo High School Surf Team posed for a team picture after their meet with Mira Costa.
A dodgeball tournament was organized at the Venice Japanese Community Center over the Thanksgiving weekend. It was a ton of fun, with kids, and adults, getting into the action. In fact, the adults seemed to be getting into it more than the kids. A mobile taco crew provided dinner and the evening was capped off with a showing of the movie Dodgeball.
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Stephanie competed for El Segundo High in a multi-school surf meet in Hermosa Beach. Other schools competing were Redondo Union, Mira Costa, San Pedro, Palos Verdes, and South Torrance. Stephanie placed fourth in the Girls Long Board competition, beating out the surfer from Redondo Union and San Pedro. Also competing that day were Stephanie’s friends, Kristin and Samantha.
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Another quiet Halloween this year. We had maybe three dozen trick-or-treaters come by, mostly because our street is out-of-the-way and not too many houses seem to give out candy.
Stephanie took Morgan and Morgan’s friend, Carolyn, to some of the busier streets in El Segundo to do their trick-or-treating. Earlier in the day, Ron took Morgan and Carolyn to the Halloween Street Faire in downtown El Segundo, sponsored by the El Segundo Recreation and Parks department. Morgan entered her pumpkin the the pumpkin carving contest and won first place in the Youth Original Pumpkin category.
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