New Year’s Day 2012
After a day of skiing at North Star, we stopped at the Kings Beach State Park and enjoyed a peaceful, beautiful and sunny day on the shore of Lake Tahoe.
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New Years 2012
Category Archives: Recreation
Sailing On The Bay (Or Almost A Dog Day Afternoon)
Sailing on San Francisco Bay in a 50′ sailboat in perfect weather (with a small side distraction of small white dogs)!
It almost became a dog day afternoon!
Deer Lake Residence Camp 2011
“Come Sail Away”
This is a Girls Scouts residence sailing camp in the High Sierras.
Residence Camp Description
“Grades 6-9
With the wind in your hair and the sun on your face, spend your days on Kidd Lake. Balance the board, pull up a sail, navigate and experience the rush of windsurfing. Have a blast building crazy rafts and get a chance to paddle around Deer Lake. For some extra excitement, you’ll take a tour of Lake Tahoe aboard the 50-foot sailing yacht Tahoe Cruise.”
August 10, 2011 (Wednesday)
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August 11, 2011 (Thursday)
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August 12, 2011 (Friday)
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August 13, 2011 (Saturday)
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August 14, 2011 (Sunday)
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August 15, 2011 (Monday)
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August 16, 2011 (Tuesday)
2011 Trek Soho S
July 15, 2011
I got a brand new bike today. It’s a 15″ Trek Soho S – a single gear commuter bike. It is so sweet!
Here I am on the Stanford campus. It’s so easy to ride…so smooth – and super light! It’ll be really handy for 6th grade.
California’s Great America Park 2011
June 18, 2011 (Saturday)
To celebrate the end of the school year and beginning of summer!
Great Barrier Reef
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The Rides
1. Celebration Swings
2. Vortex
3. Demon
4. HMB Endeavor – 4th Best Ride
“I refuse to close my eyes”
5. Flight Deck
6. Drop Tower
Time to go home!
Oakland A’s Baseball Game – Play Ball!
July 24, 2010
We saw the Oakland Athletics play against Chicago White Sox at the Oakland Coliseum. We got seats in the Club Luxury Suite 22 – with dad’s company, awesome! The game started at 1:10 PM. Never been to a real baseball game before. The A’s triumphed over the White Sox, 10 – 2. Had to dash away to get to Gun-Bun on time.
“Take me out to the ballgame,
Take me out to the park.
Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks,
I don’t care if we never come back…”
Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces of the Musée d’Orsay @ deYoung Museum
July 17, 2010
They voted “The Magpie”, by Monet, as their favorite and wondered what all the fuss was about with “Whistler’s Mother”, but they kept returning again and again to their favorites and eventually emerged from the exhibit with a deeper appreciation for the ” Impressionists”.
The last time “Whistler’s Mother” was in San Francisco was in 1933. There’s a good chance they’ll never see it again, unless they visit in Paris at the Musée d’Orsay…
Camping and Climbing At Lake Tahoe 2010
July 3 (Saturday)
Arrived in camp around 4:00 PM (Fallen Leaf Camp).
Set-up camp. Prepared Santa Maria style BBQ tri-tip, beans and garlic bread with Joe, Albert, Dennis, Terry, Charlotte and us by 7:00. AMS had brought along the tapioca pudding she’d made and everyone enjoyed the treat. Later we were all annoyed by a very loud (and large) party causing a ruckus that kept us all up.
Raging Waters 2010
June 13, 2010
To celebrate a great school year and to welcome the summer! Big fun with best friends forever at Raging Waters! It was hot, hot, hot and fun, fun, fun!
Summer 2010 Reading List
- Everything on a Waffle, Horvath
- Saffy’s Angel, McKay
- Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff
- Stone Fox, Gardiner
- Maniac Magee, Spinelli
- Hatchet, Paulson
- Harriet the Spy, Fitzhugh
- Ragweed, Avi
- Poppy, Avi
- Poppy and Rye, Avi
- Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing, Blume
- Sheila the Great, Blume
- Fudge-a-Mania, Blume
- Double Fudge, Blume
- Island of Aunts, Eva Ibbotson
- Witch Witch?, Eva Ibbotson
- Dial-A-Ghost, Eva Ibbotson
- The Secret of Platform 13, Eva Ibbotson
- Crazy Lady, Jane Leslie Conly
- The Secret Garden, Burnett
- A Little Princess, Burnett
- Love That Dog, Creech
- The School Story, Clements
- The Kite Fighters, Park
- Archimedes and the Door of Science, Jeanne Bendrick
- The Mystery of the Periodic Table, Jeanne Bendrick
- Herodotus and the Road to History, Jeanne Bendrick