2013: Summer in the US - Lovely Lovely Lovely

Ok coming back to the USA is always a fresh of breath air experience and living in Walnut Creek is no less than a holly-wood experience all in one town.                    Everything I need is there that someone has to propose something extraordinary to get me out of this "i can do everything here, so what is your problem?" attitude.    So my arrival after flying around the world trip for the 7th time, is marked by my usual pampering of self;) include massages, manicures etc..before I get swamped with work.  

The Parisian pose. lol

 
Checking my list of invites send me first to a Beethoven Orchestra, the Summer Cocktails and wine tasting, which is always fun playing dress up, but put me to a relaxing sleep, need I remember my taste has changed since my last trip to Vienna Austria or I have been affected by my Zumba classes in my daily routine of exercise, but I seem to have lost my calm.. Interesting.

W/ Mom

Ecstasy !

My Mom came to visit, and was also my B-Day and so we had grand times!  My Mom loves the US.  She comes at least 2-3 times a year and enjoys every bit of it and us.
 

Z fashion earring)

As expected, she spends much time at the stores!  You go Mom!


The next day we also spent the day in Walnut Creek, same thing, shopping restaurant-ING, get her hair done and doing padi mani, and simply being silly around Mom.

Another day, we did some shopping in SF and drove off to the Tiburon  Peninsula in Marin County, a quaint place by the Bay, past the city next

My Sis w/ Mom
OMG, this shot is simply
Hallmark Moment

to Sausalito, to have lunch just between the three girls only.

We simply were having a glorious time.

In Tiburon w/Mom

That was the summer before I had to fly out again in mid July off 2 Durban South Africa for work.  Will chat later...

Summer in California - Close to Home!

Shopping @ Broadway Plaza

Arts Fair

I spent a great long Summer and Fall in the California, and thought I summarize my eventful times in between work hours before the Winter comes in.  Let us say after the glamor trip to the Grammys in early February in LA, I simply decided not to go anywhere if I did not have to,  so I stayed close to home Walnut Creek, but with flings to Carmel, or Tahoe locally and a bit longer affairs with Prague and Toronto.

B-Day Cele

The Yellow Color was Hot

When I know I have a must travel schedule for work, I savor the quiet private moments with myself.  My early morning coffee on my porch watching mount diablo, taking a brisk walk on the iron trail or biking once in awhile, going to my gym, enjoying my group classes such as yoga, zumba or step aerobics, playing golf or going to the wine and summer art festivals of the various local cities.

I have frequented my favorite massage parlors downtown, having fun with the new bright nail polish at the posh  manicure houses that keep opening up everywhere, shopping and trying our new restaurants, the new one and my favorite that I can also walk from my place is Citra Grill, a Mediterranean Cuisine.  They serve great wine and have shish kabobs of any kind.  Fresh cooked simply to be tasty and everything lightweight catered to the health conscience.

Citra Grill

I like to sit out on their porch and watch the whole town buzzing with beautiful people and the service is excellent with personal attention!   I frequent the Movie Theater across it which allows me to stop by for a meal after or before a show.

Friends come to visit for lunch or dinner and it has been relaxing and good spending quality time with them.

I have also celebrated a birthday in June and it was nice to be around.  Lots and lots of quality time with Family members as well. What a delight!

My daily routine at Petts
Coffe after Yoga

The rest of the time, I spent writing a chapter or two of my book on Africa.  It is not hard to write while the events are happening everyday on my screen, i.e emails and current events and my famous project activities.

Obama Campaign was big in WC

Some fun with the Obama elections and running the Walnut Creek International Marathon!. So as pictures tell a 1000 words, I have posted some to share!

Our shoes were subject of
the party photographer.
 Mine was the black boot

Some photo's below at the Symphony, as well as with a gals at a Charity held for Classical Revolution Concert at Peter Getty's residence in San Francisco.

Running the WC International
 Marathon!

@ Lake Tahoe

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December 2010: Roaming in San Fran - Alcatraz with visiting cousins...

27 March 2009 - Bowling Tournament in San Francisco with GGU

My team and the missed score... we had fun! go GGU!

New Years 2009

January 2009! Seems like everyone writes or speaks of 'facing ' New Year 2009.

A year not many are optimistic about. But I observe that many ordinary Americans are tuned to politics nowadays as a result of the wake-up call of the last US administration. This is a good thing for the country. People's focus on economic excesses in the past century certainly contributed to the bankruptcy of the US. Despite my hopes for optimism, I will join those many who worry about facing 2009. Indeed, we need change we can believe in! but then again, we can always ignore our troubles and hit the party floors, and live our lives! that is what I did! /sb