Valkyries, BARS concert, music and rowing camps

Acadian left to spend 2 weeks at Cazadero Music Camp. My friend Jeny dropped Acadian and her son Sawyer off in Berkeley to catch the bus to camp. The past 2 years he's only gone for 1 week, but this time we will see him perform in 2 concerts, one this Sunday and another on July 4th. 

I already saw a photo on Instagram of him and Sawyer during their daily 3 hour keyboard sessions.  

Bryce is doing a learn to row camp at Lake Merced for 3 hours every morning. He likes it so much that he's now signed up to do a 2nd week of continuing skills camp next week. He'll be missing the last 2 days of rowing camp because he's headed to Irvine to play in a waterpolo tournament. Luckily for us, there is a van that one of the coaches will drive, so we don't have to go!

Last Saturday, the four of us went to the annual Pride concert by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony because Kyusik's best friend Dave was playing the cello. In addition to a Wizard of Oz and Brahms piece, they performed a 3 part opera accompanied by a mezzo soprano about the stages of a queer relationship, including a piece called "Or Am I in a Rut?". The conductor had a fabulous rhinestone studded suit complete with a pink triangle cape, and his husband was the MC. It was the first time the boys had seen a drag queen. Bryce marveled that everyone on stage was either queer or a queer ally. 

At the end of May, I went with some other women from my global health leadership program, WomenLift Health, to Bryce and my first professional basketball game. It was also my first time at an event in the Chase Center, which was built across the street from my UCSF office in Mission Bay. We got burgers beforehand and sat in the nosebleed seats. The women are incredible athletes, the crowd was fun, and almost everyone except us was decked out in purple Valkyries gear.