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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Indians on the Beach




It seems so long ago already, but a couple of weeks ago my mom asked me, "Would you like to take the kids to see the Indian Warriors on the beach?" Being, as usual, highly attuned to the cultural landscape & happenings in the Bay Area, I answered, "WHAT? Indians? Huh?"



It turned out to be a wonderful art installation at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. So we planned to take Carson & Reed on a Sunday afternoon. Then, to make things even better, Isha called that she was in town and would like to see us - so we met her and her friend at the beach, admired the art, froze (it WAS San Francisco in late summer, after all), went for a hot chocolate, and had a lovely afternoon. (You can pretty much guess the weather from the photos!)



Here's more about the art: thomrossart.com/thomrossart/buffalo_bill.html

I'm glad we went, for since then it's been... well... pretty much just soccer all the time... including serving dinner to the whole team last Thursday (an annual ritual) which is actually rather fun, once you get past how much WORK it is to have 7 pounds of pasta and all the fixings ready for 20 kids to wolf down in the space of a few short minutes.



But there are worse things to do than watch soccer... there's always wrestling! Sigh...

4 Comments:

Blogger Bryan B said...

San Francisco in late summer, always a gamble. Looks like it was fun. How long were the Indians on the beach?
Bryan

October 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM

 
Blogger Cindy/Snid said...

Will is now blonde?? Wow. Had to do a close-up double take on that one! Good luck with the rest of soccer season... busy days I am sure.

October 2, 2008 at 12:37 AM

 
Blogger Maya said...

They're all blonds on the Drake soccer team. Makes it really confusing early in the season, but you get used to it. It's a tradition that goes back farther than any reliable memories, so no-one really knows why. It's cute, though.

November 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM

 
Blogger DDO said...

Thanks so much for sending me the link and keeping me in the Butterfield loop!

I will be out your way in March for a conference in SF and will spend a few days with Bev. I hope to see you then.

Love to you all,
Donna (in Texas)

December 31, 2008 at 2:22 PM

 

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