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Weekend Review:

Friday, 16th Wedding Anniversary. We don't have a habit of making big plans on our anniversary. Maybe that's because we rescheduled it 2x before it actually happened or because it was squeezed in during winter break when I was at SJSU. Personaly, I've never been impressed by someone who gives a gift when it's anchored by a date/event; it always seemed to me like it was cheating and bribery, two crimes of dishonesty in my book. As in, "Here's your gift d'jour, so now I can ignore you for 4 months." I want to know that he's thinking of me in between traditional gift giving events. I'm contrary, but F must like it. (He does get out of having to remember to pick up last minute emergency get out of trouble flowers on his way home from work (wink).) We usually do the mushy conversation and share some "oh my god, has it been X-years? Do you remember..." highlights. So against tradition F did spring a really mushy (sweet and pertinent) card along with a super thoughtful-cute-clever trinket on me. He said he was inspired. The rest of the celebration consisted of the kids and I piled against F on the sofa and pinning him in place by falling asleep. Gotta love it!

Saturday morning, I went to the gym and relearned that arriving after 8am is bad planning. I took the kids with me because when they heard there was a kids-day care (my kids translation = activities and games and toys we haven't explored yet), they were keen to go. It worked out well. I ellipticalled for a bit over an hour and every now and again I could see a small mob of kids race past the glass windows with my own 2 firmly entrenched and laughing.

Saturday Afternoon: Family went to see Ovo, the latest Cirque show. Fan-tab-u-lous. Miss E leaned over during the contortionist part and said (with emphasis), "Oh! My! God!" Which pretty much sums up Cirque shows. I think this was one of my favorites, because the costumes, music, sets and performances were part of an integrated tale. Next time if we can get a few others to join us, I think we might "tail-gate" at Cirque (which will be in 2-3 years).

Sunday Morning: I ran 10 miles. (I have to reread that myself.) TEN miles. HFC! (holy f-ing crap!) The plan was to stretch for 9, but I was enjoying the trail so much, I had to go around a few more bends. My victory does not come without physical cost, but I won't write that down because sooner forgotten is sooner forgotten. Is it worth it? To me, it is.

Sunday afternoon through Evening: STAR TREK! We went to the Museum of Technology in San Jose and explored the Star Trek exhibit, rode in a shuttle, and saw the latest Star Trek film on their IMAX dome. We also explored a chunk of the regular exhibits (F talked me into the "experience an earthquake" thing which seemed kind of silly to me since I'm already pretty familiar with them... but I got aboard and got jolted in the spirit of family adventure!). The whole thing was Super-Fantastic-Awesome. The dome-IMAX does funny things to the movie images since it's all curvy and since you are so close to the screen you end up pivoting your head from left to right to catch all the action sequences. F and Uncle both commented on that. Personally, I adore IMAX and especially the one at The Tech, so I was in IMAX heaven and the weirdness merely added to my experience. I got a family membership for The Tech and plan on doing many more sojourns over the next year because there's a lot of undiscovered country there.