Taking time off from her first year of college and a hectic summer. And finally getting a chance to relax at the beach and do some fishing and crabbing.
And she hauls it in!
Amelia had a chance to revisit her rock along the Lower Yosemite Falls Trail where she had been in June of 2003.
We visited Glacier Point, Lower Yosemite Falls, Mirror Lake, Tuolumne Meadows, Lee Vining and Bodie my new step-sister, Vivienne and step-mom, Maria!
Aboard the SSV Tole Mour in the Summer of 2012
SSV Tole Mour Expedition 534, August 4 – 10 (click here)
[They’re sailing around the Channel Islands off the coast of California. They’ll be learning seamanship, marine ecology, marine science, oceanography – but mostly they’ll be having a very memorable and awesome time. What a great way to cap-off the summer. What a journey!]
The journey begins. Flight from San Jose (SJC) to Los Angeles (LAX). It’s just two of us, my best friend Maya and I, on our first air flight by ourselves.
AMS:
When we got to LAX, one of our counselors, Shannon, a.k.a “Shanananana”, picked us up and we met the other kids who also flew into LAX. They drove us to Rainbow Harbor, Long Beach where we gave our bags to the Tole Mour crew. We then got our bunk numbers, our watch group assignments, and got outfitted with wet-suits and snorkeling equipment.
Participating with Occupy SF. This is our right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
“Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The protests were initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters.[5] They are mainly protesting social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government – particularly from the financial services sector – and lobbyists. The protesters’ slogan “We are the 99%,” refers to the difference in wealth between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population.
The original protest began on September 17, 2011, and by October 9, similar demonstrations were either ongoing or had been held in 70 major cities and over 600 communities in the U.S.. Internationally, other “Occupy” protests have modeled themselves after Occupy Wall Street, in over 900 cities worldwide.” (from Wikipedia.com)
As an artist’s assistant, this will be AMS’ first real job! She will be assisting Anna (Anna’s Art Workshop) in her children’s art workshop. Her duties will include helping the artist and helping to manage the younger kids attending the workshop. What a great experience!
C.
July 9, 2011 (Saturday)
Today’s theme was trains. No girls came. First I helped paint wooden trains. I got a lot of paint on my hands wiping off paintbrushes. I had to fill up the paint canisters and help the kids chang colors
Then I helped make paper trains covered in stickers and filled with popcorn. I also attached bells to the trains that the kids made.
After break, I helped a boy named Watt make train tracks. He was the youngest there so he was a really messy drawer. I also helped glue on bridges and tunnels with a hot glue gun on all the boys’ train tracks.
At the end, I got paid $15. That’s a lot of money. Anna, the art teacher said she’d let me know if there were going to be any other camps I could help with. I liked my first job.
This will be our fifth consecutive Mid-summer Mozart Festival at the Gundlach-Bundschu Winery, Napa.
Once again we will get our usual stage right front seating in the Gold Circle. As usual, we’ll bring great snacks and food for a stage front picnic.
We’re so lucky we have the Complete Mozart Edition on CD from Philips. I’ve loaded the Program One from above into our iPad and have started listening to it in advance of the festival.
Our menu this year is:
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Ticket Memories
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!
