Just regular folks.

Vince and Sam, the birthday boy inside the Incredibles tent.

On Monday at preschool, Vince spends the last part of outdoor time in the sandbox. Ms. Pat supervises on the left. From left to right in the sandbox is Hyon Woo. Michaeil, Daniel and Tina.

Edda inside tent with Vince protesting outside.

Sheez, I love new hobbies. I’ve known about bookcrossing for a while, but now I’m into Geocaching. I guess I’ll need to buy a GPS system.

My Framebuilding Adventure

On Sunday, I got up at 6am and headed down to Monterey to watch the largest cycling event in North America – The Sea Otter Classic. My friend Jason had the (ugh) earliest start time of the day at 8am and I was trying to make that. I was off by about 3 minutes. Grr.

Also, the owner of the bike shop, Mike, was going to race in the 44-49 age group category. He’s a big roadie, but was convinced into trying out mountain bike racing. He didn’t even practice riding the mountain bike before he raced on Sunday. He still came in 24th out of 80 some. Pretty impressive.

Mike Riding Sea Otter 

We adjourned to the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Millbrae for the banquet. I got seated at table 16! The number itself wasn’t terrible, the fact that there was a large pillar blocking our view of the dance floor and head table was. Whenever someone gave a speech or when people clinked their glasses to have the couple kiss, we missed out on the action. cse la vie.

Afterward the dance floor opened up, and here’s Choon and Pei-Sun tearing it up. They are really ood dancers…

Choon and Pei-Sun Swingin’ 

I went to Paul and Jackie’s wedding on Saturday. They had it at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga. It’s a pretty nice place, and apparently, one of the snazzy places to have your wedding in the Bay Area. The ceremony was pretty darn quick. I was in the second row and snapped some good pictures.

Jackie and her father 

So where is everybody? Oh yeah, everyone has a life. So, here I am, by myself holding down the virtual fort.

Today we went to the Fishkill All-sport. I’m going to try out a free week of membership and then hopefully join. I need something to keep me occupied during the afternoons.

The shuffling of some furniture in our little apartment has opened up a new perspective. Toys litter and scatter in the play room and the computer now lights up a corner of the living room. Now web surfing occupies the corner near the MIT lamp. Jeremy and I find this set up less isolating. Previously, every evening, I would scurry to the study to spot some email or Lands’ End shopping and I would disappear for 15 minutes while Jeremy waited for me in the other room. So now, I no longer scurry and disappear, I sit in the middle of all the hub-bub.

The hot weather today encouraged us to keep track of our sunscreen bottles; in the morning after Vince and Jeremy flipped some buttermilk blueberry pancakes, we walked around the apartment compex with Ruby. We lunched on dumplings and sandwiches. On Friday at Bright Horizons they’ll celebrate Earth Day and the school requested donations of trees and perennials. We bought a redbud cluster and a butterfly bush. The redbed was suggested by Katherine and the bush will attract butterflies when the flowers bloom. After the plant purchase, we ate ice cream at the little ice cream stand attached to the grocery store. Afterwards, a trip to Target and home to clean and dinner.

This week, Jeremy is preparing for his trip to Singapore.