Bowers Museum

We had a nice weekend. Not much planned which can be a relief sometimes. Tyler wanted to see Lucy's Legacy showing at the Bowers Museum. I've never been to this museum and we had a good time. Of course, the main attraction was Lucy and the next popular one was artwork of Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things are.

Bowers is not a super large museum but big enough to spend several hours enjoying everything. There were exhibits on early California artifacts which Josh learned about in 3rd grade, a scrimshaw exhibit and a few more.

I think Hector could spend all day reading everything while the kids and I can breeze through a museum fairly fast. :) We made our way through half of the museum and he was still in the Lucy exhibit.

I have a few photos from our day juggling both digital and film cameras. I'm saving the film rolls in batches so those will come later....

More socks

Kind of on a roll here with my socks knitting...



Pattern: Angee by Cookie A. Her patterns are so pretty and I admit, a bit intimidating at first. When I first started knitting socks, I was just looked at the patterns over and over but was too scared to try them. Finally, I'm more confident in tackling them and they're well written & wonder what was stopping me.

That's the great thing about knitting, there are so many levels of difficulty but it all depends on the knitter. What may be challenging to me, may be totally easy for someone else. So I'm definitely challenging myself with more Cookie A patterns this year. I also belong to her sock yarn club and I'm really behind in that so I'm trying to remedy that.



I only knit 1.5 repeats on the leg chart because I thought the leg would be too long on me with the 2.5 repeats the pattern suggested.



I probably would have been fine as the pattern was written but I'm still very happy with them. :)

Spring Break: Instagram Style

Spring break came later than most schools but the kids school are very consistent in having their spring break the 2nd week of April.

I think I dropped the ball on telling H about the spring break dates because he wasn't able to get the time off but he said go ahead and take the kids on our annual Mammoth Lakes trip.

So off we went for 5 days to enjoy the mountains, snow and nature. :) It really is a great place to go. I made a conscious decision to leave my DSLR home and use my iPhone and my Canon A-1. It was definitely a learning experience.

I still have to finish up the roll of film in the A-1 so here are my Instagram photos to give you an idea of our trip.

Hike to Fossil Falls.

Wednesday at Mammoth Mountain.

With the later spring break, we were to able to enjoy the mountain with very little crowds. It was great. The kids are both learning snowboarding and it helps so much when they don't have to worry about people whizzing by them.

The first night/day there was some light snow so that was kind of fun. I think Tyler enjoys scraping the snow off the truck in a very limited way since it was sort of the one time thing. :) Thankfully, the new snow melted and I didn't have to deal with tire chains.

Our first morning.

Josh

Tyler

Lakes basin

The rest of the week was great. The weather was mild and sunny and the kids made some progress on their snowboarding. I'm pretty sure that Mammoth will be open until June so maybe we can squeeze another trip in there. :)

We Have Socks!

I finally have a finished knitting project! This was started July 2012 for a SKA challenge which was colorwork. Joshua needed another pair of socks since he outgrew his last pair. I had this project in a Ziploc that was shoved in the cabinet. April's SKA challenge was colorwork so I thought this was the perfect time to finish the socks up so I brought them on our spring break trip to Mammoth Lakes.

I knit the pair a bit bigger so Josh will have some growing room.





The socks are called Sneaky Argyles from the book Socks from the Toe Up for Everyone.  The most boring part was the foot portion since it was just knit knit knit until I reached the colorwork portion.

Joshua should be able to enjoy these socks for a while and keep his cold feet warm.

Friday video

This man's voice is amazing, it doesn't seem real at first. His name is Robin Blaze and is a countertenor which I've never heard of.  Read up on the various differences ie falsetto.

That reminds me of another voice....not exactly like the above person. ;)





Spring break is next week so lots of fun planned for me and the kids. :)





And finally, a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my silly husband !!! We met sometime around our birthdays 21 years ago. Has it really been that long??  :)

Wondercon 2013

What a fun weekend ! Wondercon 2013 was a great way to spend with the kids. We attended the Adventure Time panel and spent hours wandering the floor which was packed with other enthusiasts. Got lots of streetpass tags from other Nintendo 3DS users which is half of the fun. So much to look at and ogle.

I think we wandered through the entire floor multiple times and still had new things to see. I only brought my camera on Sunday and even then, it was distracting to shop and take pics of cool cosplay.

On Sunday, I concentrated on the artists alley and bought a few prints that I will frame for the kids room although I might keep one for me. :)

Entrance

LOTR

Excuse my ignorance on many things here since I'm awful with names but I do recognize this. Hector will tell me my mistakes later. :)

Awww, cute!

Plenty of photo ops.

Josh and Lego dude.

Another Lego guy.

Boys

Overall, we had a good experience. We don't have badges for Comic Con but we do have hotel so the plan is to hang around and experience the outer edges/freebies that we can find this summer. Tyler is ready for it.:)

April

H-O-C-K-E-Y !!!

Happy April Fool's Day!!