Ned and The Frog

Our big anniversary trip to Alaska is finally planned and mostly paid for.  Not to bad of a deal, either.

We are leaving on a Sunday in late August and staying 2 nights at the Anchorage Walkabout B&B. htttp://anchoragewalkabout.com  It will provide a full breakfast and free bikes to borrow.  (Marty is very excited about this perk.)  Then, we are off to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge for river rafting and hiking and sitting around in nature.  http://alaskawildland.com  On the 4th and last day, we get to take a 6 hour glacier cruise and trip on the railroad back to Anchorage.  Then another to days at the B&B.  We are excited.  Alaska was our orginal honeymoon plan, but was postponed.

Since our anniversay is on Sunday and out trip is in August, we are going to a dinner theater and overnight on the Queen Mary.  (Well, if they ever answer their phone, anyway.)

We are also planning a trip to Salt Lake City for Christmas, and now Mary wants to go to Hawaii.  How fun, (and expensive) it is to be married.

Tomorrow is THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! There are few things more exciting. This was a good year. 2nd grade is a good match for me, and my kids really learned stuff. I think I will really miss them.

But, I am so glad for the summer. I get to go to the dentist and the women’s doctor.

Then, I get to enjoy the summer. My friend Nam is getting married, and then I get to celebrate my 1 year wedding anniversary. In August is my birthday and our anniversary trip to Alaska. We also plan to visit my family in San Jose a couple times. Marty is taking his last math classes and I am going to a couple weeks of Art training for school. Maybe some Science training too. Really I look forward to watching tv all day and staying up late on Sundays to watch The Next Food Network Star at Marty’s mom’s house. Yea!

Happy Vacation!

Happy Monthaversary to us! We are off to the Clarke Estate were we were married to enjoy some time together and guacamole. (Manuel’s aunt has a tree, we lucked out.)

All the vacations are over. Tomorrow, I have a field trip at school, then tutoring, then rush home and to art class until 10:00. The last time I did this I got sick, but I’ve had 3 week without all of those things at once, and I think I am ready to go again. I’ll let you know how my mid-term portfolio review goes. (I think it’s good.)

Manuel and I will celebrate our 9 month anniversay on Sunday.  Yea!  As every month goes by, we have Rachael Ray’s Thai Chicken Pizza and experience the surrealness of being married.  It is now less surreal than it was, but sometimes it is more.  We are having so much fun together.

We took a trip to San Diego over Easter weekend.  We were feeling the drain of work and school and time going on and on and on.  It was wonderful.  Manuel didn’t even bring his computer.  He was going to leave his iphone home too, but good thing he didn’t, we used it to navigate everywhere, (including to the auto parts store after my rear view mirror fell of).

It was so wonderful to have no worries, except if we were eating too many Pringles and donuts.  We went to a science museum at Balboa Park and played like little kids.  We woke up in the morning and went to the hot tub, and then swimming, then out to lunch.

Manuel loves me.  I can tell.  It was wonderful to experience it in that total  undistracted all-attention-on-me way for a weekend.

When I was in high school there were times when my friends tried to “hook” me up with a girl they were sure was “perfect” for me. The process always started with a “virtual” introduction — in the early 90’s “virtual” meant phone.

The question would always come up “what do you look like?”, but as much as you described yourself, there was always the follow up question “what celebrity do you look like most?”. Well I am happy to share that I can now answer that question.

Thanks to MyHeritage I now know that I look like these celebraties:

Seriously! look at the list of names of the one I resemble the most is Mao Zedong the communist leader.
I don’t know what to say!