San Francisco Part 1...Arrival

Just landed at the Oakland Airport,
ready to head to the hotel to drop off our belongings.

Dropped our bags off
with the concierge
and
headed to the Expo-tique at Union Square.

Headed to Niketown to find our names on the wall.

Thank goodness they were alphabetized.
Stay tuned for Part 2

Thanks, Pete!

I was all smiles when I got these.





You guys are the best...LOVE YOU!

Greetings From San Francisco

Just wanted to say hello, I'm having a blast.
These are my teamers...Robin, Ashley, Heather, and Jeanette
More to come, on our way to our pasta dinner.

Santa Anas plus Fire...Ughhhhhh.

Sorry for the poor quality....the one time I don't have my camera!
Had to use the phone.

Just a couple of pics of the fire that had the freeway closed down...
while I was trying to get home.

My 20 minute drive home from the mall lasted nearly an hour and a half.Lots of black smoke.
The side streets are a mess.
The center of this pic is the fire climbing a power pole.
From what I see on the news,
all of this has grown and embers are catching new things on fire.

UPDATE: Glad I missed all of this.
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Pow Wow

Went to the San Manuel Pow Wow today. It was pretty cool. They had contests for dancing, drumming and singing, and some delicious Indian frybread...mmmmmm.

Colorful Regalia


This little guy was the cutest,
off to the side trying to dance like the big guys.
So many braids.
Drumming and Chanting
I thought this was Randolph...you know, from Free Willy.
I was wrong.

This was kinda cool,
those were his great grandfather's feathers,
they've been passed down from generation to generation,
for ceremonies like this.
Interesting afternoon.
Since our weather has cooled off,
we wussed out when the sun went down.
Seriously, as I write this...It's only 56 degrees.

Seriously.

I had a visitor in my classroom this morning.I totally flipped out,
was screaming at the top of my lungs...so GROSS!
Not sure if they caught it while we were gone,
or if it's gonna show back up tomorrow!

Who gives a rat's ass, you ask?
I DO!
Nasty.
It's probably gonna crawl up my pant leg while I'm teaching!

Field Trip

My class went on a field trip to the L.A. Zoo today.
We had lots of fun, saw lots of animals.

Loved this giraffe, great coloring.

Cheese.
Always amazing.
Thank goodness for the fence.
So pretty, so noisy, so stinky.
Pondering life.
Creepy spider, it was in a huge web, but the camera didn't focus on that.
Roar.

The kids had a blast.
I had a blast.
All in all, it was a great day!