Last night, we stayed up and watched the full lunar eclipse from our back yard. It happened between 2am and 4am Pacific Time and was entirely visible from our balcony. Here is a link on what that is: http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/lunar-2003/eclipse1.html The pictures at the site are better but this is the real thing!
Archive for August, 2007
Lunar Eclipse
Posted in Science, tagged eclipse, Science on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
New Glasses
Posted in Personal, tagged doctor, glasses on August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have been procrastinating for a while but finally went in for an eye test as my eyes have been hurting at the end of the day. Sure enough…. I need reading glasses. For those doctors out there, my right eye is a +50 OD and my left eye is a +75 OS. My distance [...]
Asit and Family
Posted in Friends, tagged Friends on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday evening the Aithals came over for dinner. You can see Asit’s post here along with a small video. We made homemade pizza and had White Peach sangria for dinner.
Muir Woods Hike
Posted in Vacation, tagged hiking, Muir Woods, Vacation on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On one of the last days in the Bay Area, we went to Muir Woods redwood park. It was a 2 hour drive from Mom and Dad’s house. We went for a long hike and saw the redwoods. The tallest trees in the park are 260 feet with a 14 foot diameter and are over [...]
Great America Amusement Park
Posted in Vacation, tagged park, Vacation on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On one of the days in the Bay Area, we went to Paramount’s Great America Park in San Jose. Here are Mom and Anjali on the Demon ride. Here are Vikram and Nikhil on the Centrifuge ride: Here are all of us on the Delirium ride —a powerful spinning pendulum that will send you whirling. [...]
Winchester Mystery House
Posted in Vacation on August 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We just got back from a week up in San Francisco at Mom and Dad’s house in Morgan Hill. On one of the days, we went to the Winchester Mystery House. The rich, crazy widow haunted by spirits was told to keep building her house to ward away the evil spirits. She did this for [...]
Math and Science at UC Irvine
Posted in School, tagged math, Science on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The kids just got done with Math and Science camp at UC Irvine. The boys did experiments on copper pennies. They made their own mold garden consisting of old cheese, mango skins, stale bread etc. They also built a cardboard roller coaster. Annika also attended and made ice cream, experimented on eggs and vinegar and [...]
The La Brea Tar Pits
Posted in Science, tagged los angeles, Science, Vacation on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week we went to the La Brea Tar Pits. La Brea is one of the world’s most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world. Visitors can learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, [...]
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