Day 50

Copper always finds the sun to take a nap.

Day 49

Aztec dancers (look at the cute young one!) at the Latinos Unidos Carnaval. It's the club's big event every year. There was a mechanical bull, piñatas, lotería, and lots of tasty food including: elotes, pan dulce, pupusas, enchiladas, aguas frescas, etc. A fun day at school!

Day 48

Makayla hard at work this morning, she was even answering phones. She thought it was her dad calling every time though. It's crazy how fast kids grow up and start walking and talking!

Day 47

A ladybug on my arm, on my train ride to work!

Day 46

A little scary to me that this is one of my 6th grade tutoring students social studies book.

"For a long time, the Bible was our only record of what early life in Mesopotamia was like. In recent years, men have found other records of early times there, but none is as accurate as the Bible, our only completely accurate record of ancient (very old) history."

Day 45

Cool tree at Menlo College, where Strive has it's office.

Day 44

On the drive back home from San Diego, somewhere on I-5 right before it gets to 152.

Day 43

Passover Seder at Eloise and Alan's (Jacob's parents). Some family and some friends from SoCal, NorCal, Portland and New York.

Day 42

Dinner with Jacob's family at Stone Brewing Company. It has this great outdoor patio and gardens with huge amazing stone tables. The food is also very tasty.

Day 41

Copper and his Uncle Ruddy hanging out in the backyard.

Day 40

Pyramid Lake, on the drive down to San Diego.

Day 39

Seder hosted by Emily and Rob!

Day 38

Phở for lunch.

Day 37

A beautiful day for Jacob's sailing lesson at the Redwood City Marina (only about 10 minutes from home). He went out on a boat and I sat and did some reading. We just discovered how close this is, and there's even a pier for fishing.

Day 36

Not a great picture unfortunately, but the group at WPC having lunch on our last day.

Day 35

Stopped by the Mall of America for a couple hours tonight and saw this cool HUGE lego guy. You can tell how big it is because there's a Panda Express in the background with some people walking around. MOA by the way (all info according to wikipedia) is the largest mall in the country in terms of retail space, it receives 40 million visitors a year and is big enough to fit 7 Yankee stadiums!

Day 34

First workshop of the day at the White Privilege Conference here in Minnesota. I arrived here late last night and will be here through Saturday. The workshop was called "The Wall: Understanding and Dismantling Our Barriers to Cross-Difference Relationships" and led by this guy Jamie Utt, you can check out his blog at http://changefromwithin.org/. In the workshop we "deconstructed the role of prejudice, bigotry, and hate in our relationships," and were "empowered to reflect on our own experience with race and its intersection with religion, gender, sexual orientation, and class."

Day 33

Earthquake weather in the Bay Area this morning! It was relatively warm and sunny when I left home this morning, then I get to San Francisco and it's gray and cold and pouring rain! I get soaked on the walk to work since I wasn't wearing rain boots or a raincoat and didn't have an umbrella, then 5 minutes after I get inside my office it's not raining anymore and the sun is coming out.

Day 32

Getting back home from my after work walk with Copper on a beautiful day.

Day 31

Went to watch Father of the Bride (the original, 1950 version with Elizabeth Taylor) at the Stanford Theatre. I love this place, they show only old movies and this organ guy comes out of the floor to play at the beginning and at the end.

Day 30

Reading Quest apps.

Day 29

I don't think the picture does this dog justice - he's huge! It's a Newfoundland, his name is Brutus, ran into him at the Redwood City farmer's market.

Day 28

Long day, long week. Tired on my way home, and so were these three people sleeping on BART. :-)

Day 27

Went to watch the Lick musical, Assassins, tonight with Jacob and Alaina. It was great! Then, out for dinner and drinks, then rush! home to post before midnight!

Day 26

What do these words mean to you? We're having our students who have attended SDLC lead activities for the whole school: students, faculty and staff. The activities have been starting conversations around campus... it's a start.

Day 25

Makayla was at work again today, we played with the homies (and Dora)!

Day 24

Hannah and Dimi eating popcorn, and Zoe made herself a grilled cheese. Regular afternoon at work. :-)

Day 23

Great walk on a beautiful day around Bayfront Park in Menlo Park.

Day 22

Beautiful day in San Francisco.

Day 21

3 weeks and going strong with the photos!

Asparagus as our veggie for dinner. Also had turkey quinoa meatloaf leftovers from the other night, pretty tasty.