I'm still in my forties! Sigrid and I went out to dinner at Frances on Friday. It was our second dinner at Frances, the other time being for Sigrid's birthday in 2011. We should go more often! This is a "market shot," a spiked shot of something they found fresh at the market (in this case, blood orange with a couple of apertifs tossed in).
For my birthday itself, we had roast chicken and vegetables...
...with cupcakes from Roseann afterward.
Anders and Soren came up with a new use for the air cannon at the Exploratorium that normally is used to send a beach ball into the air.
We also spent a bunch of time in the Tinkering Studio, which has a great vending machine...
...that sells electronic components and tool kits.
The Tinkering Studio also has a wall of trophies, featuring disassembled toys.
The boys found fourteen eggs (twelve that they had decorated, plus two that we got at a dinner last night) in the backyard.
The Easter Bunny rewarded them for their efforts.
For our second family shift at the Food Bank, we lucked out and got to pack apples, rather than the far more common shift of portioning rice into bags.
We packed 2+ pallets of apples into smaller boxes. Here Sigrid is, celebrating the bottom of the first pallet of apples.
Soren tried to escape this pic, but you can see his head peeking out from behind some boxes.
It was a small crew today (instead of the 80 volunteers they expected, we for some reason only had about twenty of us), but we managed to box up 12,600 pounds of apples in our two hour shift. You work up an appetite when you're surrounded by apples for two hours, so we went to Little Chihuahua for an early lunch.
