Oakland's Fairyland

So the month of August was very stressful for us. We were planning to move to Palo Alto to a house we'd been remodeling for a year right before Maile started Kindergarten at Ohlone. She got into Palo Alto's Mandarin immersion program. However, the kitchen and the bathrooms were not finished, and we did not have any floors. On top of that, we had to clear out two households of stuff from my family home, so we could rent it. Thankfully, my brother was able to come out to help us with packing up our family home, including some of his stuff.

On 8/11 while my brother was here, I planned to go to Oakland to pick up our kitchen sink, which got delivered to the wrong facility. I decided to combine the errand with taking the kids to a place called Fairyland. I remembered a friend of mine taking her son there a while back. It's more like a fairytale place versus tinkerbell-type fairies (Maile wore her wings nonetheless) or the Castro in SF :) I asked my brother if he wanted to go. He wasn't over his jetlag yet, so I knew he'd be able to wake in time.

Fairyland is a great place for young kid. And since it was a Tuesday, there weren't that many people there. The food is very reasonably priced unlike most amusement parks and decent quality.