Whale of Weekends

On this 3-day Memorial Day weekend, the Man and I visited the annual San Ramon Art and Wind Festival.  I'd skipped the last two years but decided to give it another go to see if we could pick up something to dress up the house.  All we got was a bottle of aromatic oils but we had fun watching the kite flying demonstrations and listening to the Top Secret band and watching the energetic old and young danced to their renditions of dance music from the nineties and earlier.  Some couples were pretty good but it was all just spontaneous fun just like the July concerts by the community center.

Last week, 3 of us made our way to Monterey to join Cal High science class for whale watching.  For a few minutes of peeking at some black bump out in the choppy waters and an occasional spray of finely misted water, we endured 3 hours of freezing rocky rides on waves the size never seen in calm placid Singapore waters.  We started out in good spirits, the kids sleeping most of the hour and a half to Monterey.  We had hopes of seeing more whales than we did and hopes of maybe a school of dolphins.  But we only had the lonely hump backed whale.  Still it was an experience.  I saw more whale in British Columbia where the whale actually came real close to our boat.  But this hump backed would have none of that, content to feed on krills away from the boats all eagerly trying to get close.  Fortunately, we didn't get the whoozies, but you can tell from the way some folks were pushing to the back of the boat that they were going to get rid of their breakfast.  And there was that boy with his Chinese girlfriend who valiantly kept his food down head down on her lap after a half hour or so of holding his girlfriend tight on the rail against the sway of the swells.  What irony.

Not much else to write about.  House is getting a once over now that the weather is finally warming up and Spring feels like Spring except of course, people are already talking about summer being upon us.  What happened to Spring?  All the rain and unseassonably cold weather had made Spring seemed like an extension of Winter.  But overnight it seems, temperatures are up into the high 70's and mid-80's.  Go figure.