Two Mini Vacations

Last week we went to the Santa Cruz County Fair, which is only our second time going in the five years we've lived here. There is so much to look at and do at the fair that it's always a good time. We met my friend Sue and her kids there unexpectedly. Some of our favorites events were the frisbee dogs, giant vegetable competition, feeding carrots to goats, feeding ourselves fried food, homebrew taste-testing and of course, the piglet races:
I'm kinda obsessed with piglets. It's hard to see in this photo, but there are two rows of piglets in which the bottom row is completely obstructed from view by the top row. Unfortunately, I could not hold one.

Sheeps in jackets!


Yesterday Jake and I went up to San Francisco for the afternoon to visit the Chihuly exhibit at the de Young Museum. We've always been big Chihuly fans ever since we saw an installation in the Old City of Jerusalem in 2000. We've also been to an exhibit in Grand Rapids and we see his work pop up all the time (there's even a permanent piece in Kalamazoo). His work is very distinctive. This exhibit didn't have any new works, but we did see some pieces we haven't seen before and it's just always a joy to see his amazing glass work. These pictures were all taken with my iPhone.


These next two photos were glass pieces that were placed above a clear glass ceiling. The room was just glowing from rainbows.

We now really want to go to Tacoma, WA to see Chihuly and his team at work in the studio.

Adorableness

Here's an adorable picture of us that our friend Brian took at his wife's birthday party. I made the cake again because it's her favorite and she waits all year for it. Diana said that it's worth getting older just to eat this cake! Couldn't have had a better compliment.