Katy and Margaret had a pre-Christmas recital. Sam and I enjoyed it immensely.
Elizabeth: The girls worked very hard to prepare for this, and played songs that were somewhat difficult for them. They both played well, and I am proud of them. If you would like to see and hear their performances, click on the photo and then on the movie of each of them. After the recital, which took place in a nursing home, they stayed and greeted the residents who came to listen to the show.
Luckily, no pictures of this one. We all went and did yoga (except Katy, she was busy). Except for all the stupid names for everything and the fact that I haven’t seen my toes for years (much less, touch them), it was actually fairly enjoyable. Sam loved it. I think it will be good for Margaret. They have kids and teen (and adults) classes that we may try, but we will most definitely try to go back next month when they do the family thing again.
Katy has been going to the teen/kids class and dragging her friends along with her. They all seem to think it is very cool.
We went to the annual fair at St. Mary’s school in town. The kids had a great time. Sam LOVED all of the rides and bouncy house-type things they had there.
Sam and I met some of my Yale friends (Pascale and her daughter, Juliana, Andy, and Scott, who was in town for a conference, but has been living the ex-pat life in London for some time now). We had lunch at the De Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, visited the sculpture garden, reviewed the architecture of the new building (none of us were keen on the exterior) and checked out the view from the tower (excellent).
We went to the zoo with Olivia. We managed to see almost all of the zoo in a couple of hours. We got there early on a cold foggy day, so it was pretty much empty. Some of the animals were much more active, others were nowhere to be seen.
We went to a party today where the Karaoke Ice cream truck was the guest of honor. The kids had a great time singing and dancing karaoke. We even got Pokie up there doing it and here is thestuff from the Karaoke Ice website.
There are a couple with Katy and Jenna from the Karaoke Ice website, here and here.
We went to see art today. It was some strange art show that is all over downtown San Jose. The picture above is Margaret in the Karaoke Ice truck. You sang karaoke and they gave out fun pops. The other thing that everyone liked was they displayed art (or something) on the San Jose City Hall.
We took a trip to the zoo to escape the heat in Los Gatos. Here it was about 110, it was 71 at the zoo. Katy took almost all of the pictures. Margaret and Elizabeth took some of them as well.
Katy went surfing today and had a lot of fun. She had surf lessons from a woman instructor who mostly teaches girls. She has another lesson scheduled tomorrow. Both Katy and Olivia got up and had a bunch of runs into the beach. The only problem was Katy kept running into every other surfer out there. Katy had another lesson today. Next time we come, she just needs a refresher then she can surf on her own.
We were in Tahoe for the Memorial Day Weekend. A little more work on the house. A trip to Squaw. And a few inches of snow Saturday morning.