Westlake Hills Elementary Open House

The school year will end in 2 weeks, Westlake Hills Elementary had a open house this evening. The girls were so proud to show us their school projects and artwork displayed in their classrooms. In the remaining days of this school year, they are going to have a show, field trip to the zoo, In-N-Out burger lunch and other celebrations.

Cleopatra exhibition at the California Science Center

Today we went to the California Science Center members only pre-show of the Cleopatra exhibition. The show will open to the public from May 23 till the end of the year. There are more than 150 priceless Egyptian artifacts including gold jewelry, small & large stone monuments, tools and various artifacts that tie directly to Cleopatra's world 2,000 years ago! Too bad photography was not allowed inside the show, I secretly snapped a couple shots at ISO1,600 to share.

Caitlyn's poolside birthday party

It's Caitlyn San's 9th birthday next week, Erica & Vivian got invited to attend Caitlyn's birthday party at their community pool, all their old buddies all showed up! We enjoyed a lot of delicious Vietnamese food while the kids were having fun at the pool! After swimming, we all went to Paul & Judy's house for cakes and coffee. It was a fun day with friends!

Los Angeles Zoo

It was two & half years ago when we first went to the LA Zoo. The girls have been doing a lot of projects about animals and Vivian has been bugging us to take her to the zoo since Spring break... We went there at around 11am and the parking lot was already packed. We went up to the table and signed up for one year family membership. It's only $99 for the whole family unlimited visit to the zoo for the entire year plus two extra guest tickets for free!

The girls were very excited to see all kinds of animals but after hanging out there for almost four hours, they were very tired...  We had an early dinner at Todai to pre-celebrate Mother's Day, they place was so busy tonight, I think a lot of people took their moms to the restaurant tonight instead of tomorrow to avoid the crowd...

Erica's new FB profile picture

Just snap some pictures with my old M-Rokkor 90mm f:4 on my micro 4/3. Picked one for Erica's new FB profile picture.

First bike ride at the beach

Today is Good Friday, we all have a day off. We were busy cleaning the house in the morning. After lunch at home, we load up our bikes in the van and head off Santa Monica beach. We stop by the Agoura Hills Animal Shelter because the girls wanted to check out the dogs and cats over there, after that, we continued our trip to the beach. It was a beautiful day at the beach, we parked our van at the beach parking off PCH and W. Channel Road and started our bike ride. The long stretch bike path extended from Temescal Canyon Road off PCH all the way to Venice Beach Park. We passed by Santa Monica State Beach Park, Pacific Park, Chess Park, Crescent Bay Park, Venice Recreational Center and Venice Beach Park and turned around at the Venice Whaler and head back to Santa Monica, total mileage was over 10 miles, What a fun afternoon at the beach!

California Science Center

It rained again last night... Erica slept in a little this morning because she had bacterial Conjunctivitis (Pink eye) since Friday, mom was giving her eye drops in the past two days and she's 80% recovered this morning. Vivian and I rode our bikes to pick up some donuts at our local donut shop for breakfast. After quick breakfast, we went to the California Science Center in downtown, we all got in for free with the annual family membership passes we bought at the Ontario Science Centre couple weeks ago when we were in Canada. The girls spent a fun 3 hours over there, they have been to the Science Center before during school field trips. We will come back again in end of May or June to see the Cleopatra exhibition which will open on May 23rd.