Blogs from North America - page 9514

PARTY 1: The Henry Estate Spring Wine Social WHO: All excellent people welcomed. Specifically, bring people you would like to have at the party. WHAT: This is a casual/fancy/novelty dress function with music, food and drink. There is a finite amount of music, food and dress provided, bring more if you dare. WHERE: 1526 Henry St. Berkeley, CA 94709 WHEN: Friday, May 20th, 8pm- WHY: A convivial celebration is always in order. HOW: By inviting good people to a comfortable environment and providing them with scrumptious food and pleasurable drink, we theorize an atmosphere of merriment may spontaneously materialize. PARTY 2: Mutant Party! A three-headed monster jam that you won't find anywhere else but North Berkeley. Sleepovers will awake to find the front yard filling up with Yard Sale goods in ... read more

Make a difference Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood for something wonderful, you acted on it Dan Zahra LINK Red Rock Canyon url=http://www.redrockcanyonlv.org/ Red Rock Canyon Red Rock Canyon Travel Trip Buy a cheap cooler and fill it with goodies for use in your car when driving saves time and money The next morning we were off to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, and did not know what to expect; it turned out to be just awesome. There was a 13-mile scenic drive through the park. There was a $5.00 fee, but well worth it. We stopped at the Visitor’s Center to talk with people and Kelly bought a very nice sunh... read more

HI all, I hope you are all well. As promised here is a more detailed update than the one sent the other day :/ The bus trip from Calgary was MAGNIFICENT!!!!!! the mountains are huge and there is snow everywhere! and i mean snow still a coupe of meteres deep - lots of avalanche warnings too..... around the resort there are huge piles of snow that have been cleared offf hte roads still just sitting there some piles would be at least 3m high!!!! The bus was also a lot more comfotable than the plane too and we could see so much stuf. In Calgary we saw tons and tons of squirrels - Matt we even managed to get a few good photos of the little fellas too!! ;) In Banff we saw real live reindeer ... read more

mbaade visa update: I GOT IT! We went to NYC today. Took the 7:25 train to Philly, met abeyta, got bfast, caught the 8:30 Chinatown bus, made it to the consulate by 11:00ish. Finally got through the massive wait line and dropped it off around 2:00ish. Central park for a bit. Listened to a guy playing the sax for quite a while and then went to take a nap in the sun. Woke up at 4:30, just in time to go get my finished visa. Got it. Subway back to Chinatown. Caught the 6:00 bus back to Philly, had dinner in Chinatown, brought the 8:40 SEPTA to BMC, went to Eckard and Starbucks and back out to Brecon to pack and do laundry and whatnot. Now it's 1:30am and I just got to the yearbook office. ... read more

"We won't know how good we were as parents until our grandchildren are raised." --John Bradshaw After a futile attempt to sleep in the van, we found a place that was serving breakfast, and had an early, early breakfast. Our next stop was an RV park for a shower and a cleanup session. Then we were off to Death Valley. When we were young, we can remember watching Death Valley Days and the good old 20-mule-team Boraxo wagon train. Those are great stories. We stopped at the National Park Service Visitor Center and we chatted with some of the rangers. One of them said it was one of the nicest days of the year that he could remember. We left Death Valley and continued to the town of Pahrump and settled in at a motel. ... read more