Jul 2008

Aye, it's been a while since I've been on here - we've been back in Idaho for a few weeks already and time is just flying by! Feeling of deja vu - I say phrases like that way too much - about time going fast. Anyway, been kicking around Pocatello and the house, and it's been good times being able to catch up on things around here and people we've missed. Smelling roses over here, I say.

Luckily we were in town again for this year's Relay for Life - they raise money for cancer awareness and research, as well as honor cancer survivors - can't beat that. My mom is of course my heroine when that word is uttered.

We’ve done a few things around the house and the yard, and mom has too – in fact, when she replaced her garage door with a new one, we happened to pull up behind her old one, go figure, ha!

A band came to Pebble Creek and we made a beautiful evening out of it - Charlie made friends with Cisco and we had a lovely evening at The Rock. And... after the power came back on, and we could actually hear the band …Elephant Revival.

The Berkeley Kite Festival was a wonderful event to go to. We went to go to the Denver Festival a couple years ago, only to be disappointed – this however, was totally different. A wonderful kite festival, lots of people, vendors and activities as well as catching up with family and friends in a picturesque setting. John and Gerry met us at the airport and took us to Berkeley on BART, and we had a great lunch together. They made sure we made it back to our hotel before they would leave us to go back home, how sweet they are. I was obviously very excited about my lunch. As always, yeah…

Our hotel was so nice, right on the marina and walking distance to the Festival – a great view from the balcony despite the bird poop.

The festival had tons of people watching the kite displays and flying their own kites. There was lots of line laundry and tons of skilled kiters – I was obsessed with the octopus and ended up with tons of pictures of them, as well as the Revolution kiters. Just incredible skill. Also people from Japan with their kites and taiko – made me miss taiko immensely! They had rokkaku fights that were fun as hell to watch – sounds odd maybe, but it was so fun to pick a kite and cheer for it. There are teams of choreography when it comes to a few different kites that are just incredible the things they can do with kites, crazy. And Maya made it over to the festival with her brother, and also picked us up for the airport - how good is she to us?! It's always fun trippin with Mom, love her!

On the way home, from the plane, we were able to see one of the many fires.