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Archive for April, 2008

Wine Party with the Real Housewives from Orange County

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , , on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Terry and Kriss came down from Seattle this weekend and hosted a fun evening at the Wine Cellar in Irvine. It is actually a wine storage building that we used for our private party. The Bordeaux was flowing from about 5pm until closing. Following are a couple of pictures from the evening. Here are the [...]

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Birthday Dinner and Party

Posted in Kids, tagged , , , , on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The boys had their 11th birthday this past week and we celebrated by taking them out to Champagne Bakery (their choice).  They ate strawberry crepes for dinner. They also had a sleep over with their friends and had homemade chocolate fondue (again their choice).  Are you sensing a French theme here? They then stayed up [...]

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Track Meets

Posted in Track, tagged , , on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Nikhil is continuing with his track workouts during the week and has started participating in meets on the weekends. This is his first season of track and field. Last weekend he participated at the Swift Invitational Track meet in Gardena. He ran his fastest 800M at 3:09 (in his second meet) and his first 1500M [...]

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Back to Normal

Posted in Kids, tagged , , on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So we are back to our daily routine. The boys had a campout this weekend for Boy Scouts and Annika had a softball game. Anjali took the boys and I went with Annika. I got a lucky picture of her hitting the ball!

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Ecuador Adventure – Banos (6 of 6)

Posted in Vacation, tagged , , on April 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On our last two days in Ecuador, we headed south of Quito on the Pan American highway to the village of Banos. It is known for its Tungurahua volcano which is an active 5000m high volcano site. It last erupted in Nov. 2006 and was said to have released steam on the days that we [...]

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Amazon Adventure – en la Mitad del Mundo and Otavalo (5 of 6)

Posted in Vacation, tagged , , , , on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On one of the few remaining days after the Amazon, we went to the equator, also known as the middle of the world. Here are the kids on the equator line. We visited a museum that had a water demonstration supposedly showing the coriolis effects. On the equator line, the water drained from the sink [...]

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Ecuador Adventure – Kapok Treehouse and Suspension Bridge (4 of 6)

Posted in Vacation, tagged , , , , , on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Each day, we went on a canoe ride and did some hiking. Here is a video of one of the canoe rides. Listen to the sounds of the jungle and see the amazing variety of plant and animal life. On one of the days, we climbed up to the top of a 135 foot (40 [...]

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Ecuador Adventure – Amazon Wildlife (3 of 6)

Posted in Vacation, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »

All of our hikes and tours were led by 2 guides. One was a native Indian guide (on the left below – named Segundo) and the other was a high school professor by training that acted as translator and story teller (named Oscar). The kids really took a liking to Segundo. Even though he spoke [...]

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Ecuador Adventure – The Amazon Journey (2 of 6)

Posted in Vacation, tagged , , , on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The middle part of our trip was spent in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador. We started off with an early morning plane ride from Quito airport to a small town called Coca about a 1/2 hour east of Quito. From there it is a short “chiva” bus ride to our safe house where the staff [...]

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