California conversations

Are you glad to be home, guys?

The Boy:

Yes.  I mean, eventually it gets boring in California.  And I missed my friends.  And we had to take a car everywhere.

This from the child who while we were there declared:

There aren't any kids in California.

Q had, of course, a different take:

I like California better.
Us: Why?
Q: Because Ba Ngoai* likes me so much.
Us: How do you know?
Q: Because she makes me pho and gives me lots of kisses.
Us: What about all the swimming?
Q: That, too.

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*Maternal grandma in Vietnamese.