Weekend Fun!

@ the 6th Annual Circus for Arts in the school at Alameda!
It was Riya's very first Circus and a circus experience for us after a really long long time. Show was wonderful and the performances were absolutely amazing!
Hands down a wonderful way to spend a Sunday evening. we liked all the performances but the best was the balancing act by X and the last act.
http://www.circusforarts.org/

@ the Marsh - The Amazing Bubble Man!
Louis Pearl has a brilliant act around bubbles which was entertaining for both children and adults. Bubbles were made using various instruments and of all sizes. The "gas" bubble was beautifully done. But I am guessing kids loved the "bubble me" section the best. How can you go wrong with bubbles?
http://www.tangenttoy.com/bubbleman/

Riya's Favorite Books

This post is dedicated to list all of Riya's favorite books... (not in any specific order)
1. "More More More , " Said the Baby : Three Love Stories
2. A Splendid Friend , Indeed
3. Arlene Alda's 1 2 3 : What do you see ?
4. Baby Danced the Polka
5. Good Night , Gorilla
6. Emily's Balloon
7. Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see?
8. Big Red Barn
9. Silly Sally
10. The Going to Bed book
11. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
12. The Very Busy Spider
13. Goodnight Moon
14. Shapes (Little Scholastic)
15. Where is the Baby's Pumpkin?
16. Pippo Gets Lost
17. We are Going on a Bear Hunt
18. Where is the Baby's Belly Button?
19. Emily's Balloon

20. Over in the Jungle

21. Turtle Splash

A Day with Anu!

Rex and me had the opportunity to hang out with Anupma, at San Francisco. She whisked us to a quaint breakfast-brunch All American place (one of her favorites) for some delicious pancakes, fresh orange juice, eggs-benedict and freshly squeezed orange juice. We loved the side order of potatoes with cheese and couldn't get enough of those!



Later, she gave us a tour of the Legion of Honor museum. Since we had heard so much about the place, we decided to check it out.
The museum itself is very beautiful, overlooking the Golden Gate, situated in a park. The museum was built in honor of Californian soldiers who died in WWI. The museum is set on a hill top, such that one can see the Golden Gate bridge, the ocean and the city. As for the collection, the museum boasts of an exhibition of paintings, drawings, arts and sculpture of 4000 years European art.
We loved the European paintings, and the special exhibition of European jewelery was particularly stunning. Here are a few favorites ( there were so many, and we couldn't settle on one "best" painting).







There were so many more that we really liked but didn't quite capture them well on the camera (Flash was strictly prohibited) Hopefully one of these days we will go back and take better pictures of some of them...
Here are some of our pictures on the new camera :)







We ended the day with a game of scrabble and dinner at a hole-in-the wall Chinese place, before driving back home.