Busy weekend

On Friday Bryce went to his first high school dance. The theme was Grease, so we made sure he had watched the movie the weekend before. He was out from 7 pm until I picked him up at 11:30 pm. Kyusik's parents arrived that evening, picking up Acadian from soccer practice along the way home. They'll be staying with us for 2 weeks while we are in Taipei for Dave and Tomasz's wedding celebration and will then spend a few days in Yosemite after we return. 

Yesterday was insanely busy with Acadian's soccer game, dropping Bryce off for his waterpolo team sleepover, and then heading straight down to Stanford to visit the Rodin sculpture garden, pho at a Vietnamese institution in San Jose, Indian grocery store shopping in Milpitas, and returning to Stanford for a play called Hidden Strawberries about the impact of wildfires on migrant farm workers. The play was written by an Iranian postdoctoral fellow at the School of Sustainability. He is a scientist and playwright and based the play upon a series of interviews he conducted with California migrant farmworkers who have been disproportionately affected by wildfire smoke. Acadian was the youngest audience member and got prime front row seating. Here are photos of Bryce and his frosh buddies Cypress and Ruhan at their last home waterpolo game of the season, Bryce's dance outfit, the Rodin garden, and scenes from the waterpolo sleepover hosted by a senior whose parents own a winery in Sebastopol. The generous parents provided bus transportation to and from as well as dinner (paella and ice cream sundaes), snacks, and breakfast for 25 boys. Apparently they were up until 4 pm. The shenanigans included swimming and running through the vineyard at night, watching The Hangover, and pledging their devotion to water polo. Bryce is the one with the red sleeping bag in the last photo. 

On Sunday morning, I had a lovely brunch with Peter, who had never met Acadian or seen our house in SF. It was fantastic to catch up with him after so many years. Upon returning, I dropped off Acadian at his school carnival, while Kyusik and his parents were grocery shopping for Korean food. Later that afternoon, I did a Zoom mocktail class led by a Lick parent. We made a mint shrub and a delicious pomegranate orange blossom water grenadine.