San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants invite you to Opera at the Ballpark. This free performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni will be simulcast live from the War Memorial Opera House.
Opera At The Ballpark
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Beauty And The Beast
Opening March 17, 2017 at the new Palo Alto High School Performing Arts Center
Wisdom Teeth Extraction
February 16, 2017
Ouch!
An epic and painful experience. Nothing short of a clove pack could stop the pain of dry socket.
Refugees Welcome – Racists Out!
January 28, 2017
Protesting Trump’s Executive Order to ban Muslims refugees and legal immigrants from certain countries.
CHRISTMAS 2016
December 25, 2016
16th Birthday Celebration – SF Chinatown
November 13, 2016
Turning 16 is a big deal! She wants to spend her birthday with her friends by going to San Francisco’s Chinatown for a luncheon and cake. Later she wants to go to Milpitas and enjoy dinner at another Chinese restaurant.
Halloween 2016 – Night Terrors
October 31, 2016
This is by far AMS’ darkest and most frightening costume. She came up with the idea and we then found bits and pieces of material, foam, yarn, polyester fill. The mask came from a street vendor I ran into in San Francisco while attending a conference.
A vision of a waking nightmare and paralyzing terror in the suburbs.
Halloween Contest
AMS wore her costume to school for the high school Halloween Contest. She didn’t win a prize but most of her friends thought she should have gotten it.
Inspiration
This was the source of inspiration for AMS’ costume. A more benign bug-like representation.
Philippines & Hong Kong 2016
June 3 – 6, 2016
SFO -> Shanghai -> Manila
Shared a taxi to the White Knight Hotel in Intramuros.
Spend our first full day walking around Intramuros and along Roxas Boulevard in the heat. Still jet-lagged. Drank some excellent coffee at the White Knight Hotel – Batangas coffee!
June 7, 2016 – Tuesday
Departed Manila and arrived in Hong Kong. We’re staying at the Eaton – Kowloon. From the airport we took the K1 bus that dropped us off directly at the Eaton Hotel – Kowloon. We arrived at the hotel very late.
June 8, 2016 – Wednesday
Spent the day walking around the Eaton Hotel. Went to the night market on Temple Street.
June 9, 2016 – Thursday
Disneyland
We went to Disneyland with Maria, her daughter, Vivienne. It was Vivienne’s first trip to Disneyland – her 6th birthday present. She would never dream of going to Disneyland until now.
June 10, 2016 – Friday
Went to Hong Kong by Star Ferry and found the Mid-Levels longest escalator.
June 11, 2016 – Saturday
Hong Kong -> Manila -> Iloilo City -> San Jose
Hong Kong. Woke up early to rain pouring down. Packed up, got a quick breakfast at the Main Street Cafe and caught Bus A21 to the airport. Our check in counter was in Terminal 2 but the gate was in Terminal 1. Got through security, immigration and customs without a problem and headed off to Manila at 11:30 AM. Arrived in Terminal 3 in good shape.
Manila. Transferred by taxi to Terminal 3, got checked in for the next leg and waited. A delayed flight and gate change and we were off for Iloilo City by 5:30 PM (late).
Iloilo City. Arrived after dark and looked for a van but they were all gone already. Had to transfer to another location to catch a van to San Jose.
Two hours later we arrived in San Jose welcomed by a small group of family kids and a motorcycle taxi waiting for us.
Checked in to the Adelaide Travelers Hotel. Chill.
Maker Faire 2016
May 21, 2016 @ San Mateo County Event Center
Amelia, myself and Maya all went to the Maker Faire together by train.
Scenes from the Faire
We ended up eating tocino at a Filipino food truck “Jeepsilog”. Expensive but yummy!
5th Kyu Aikido Test
March 19, 2016 @ 2:00 PM
AMS takes the 5th kyu aikido test (highest level blue belt). She passed with flying colors! She’s now the highest ranking teen in the teen class.
