Miranda's Voyages: July 2011

Thursday, 7 July 2011

California (from Alia)

Hey all!

We're having a great time in California. Busy but fun.

So far, we've spent time with Miranda's
Great grandpa Herb (100 years old!)
Grandparents David and Faye
Great aunts/uncles and their partners
              Bill and Gloria
              Renee and David
              Ruth and Myron
Mom's cousin Heather, husband Micheal and son Zeno

Still to come: Ali, Robert, baby Brandon, Karen (bride), Sean (groom), Shawn, Laura, Theo and Sam.

Karen is having a animal theme wedding, so everyone has been working on their costumes.
Miranda has a dragonfly/butterfly theme with a jacket and parasol covered in them, a silver mask
and stick-on jewels around her eyes.
I'm going as a raven, the way she sees herself: covered in flashy.
Zeno is going to be a scorpion, and we've tried a few things for the tail.
We have high hopes for plaster of paris casting strips to replace papermache.

Ruth's back, so more later.
Alia

Saturday, 2 July 2011

creative day, long night flight

On the road again! This time Miranda and I (Alia) are in San Francisco for my cousin Karen and Sean's wedding.
I don't think I clued in to the fact that arriving at 10:30 pm would mean it would feel like 2:30 am when I booked those tickets.

The wedding has an animal costume theme, so we headed to Michaels for art supplies.
On the way back we tried a Hawaiian BBQ chain restaurant. Nice chicken.
Also got sugared tamarind fruit on a stick and ripe plums at a local store.
The tamarind was full of big seeds, but pretty good.

I made a golden raven mask that ties on to my glasses, and we are working on a papermache
scorpion tail for 7 year old Zeno. A few details to go on the mask.
I tried a duct tape version, but the balloon popped and pulled it in on itself.
Fun attempt anyway.

Miranda and Zeno are having a light saber battle on the back porch.
We went to the park in the SUN! (a challenging place to take a good picture).

Tonight we're going out for sushi.
Tomorrow we're visiting San Jose for the Egyptian and Technology museums.
Monday July 4 will be at the Marin County Fair.

I may not get to Chinatown for shopping, but this was much more relaxing.

Alia