Last week was a fun time of celebration with friends and family. It started two weeks ago when all three of us went on a trip up to the Bay Area. On Friday we went to The Tech in San Jose, which is an amazing science/technology museum on its own, but they also have Star Trek: The Exhibition. The exhibit was a lot of fun and the rest of the museum was great as well. We were there for 4 hours and could have spent more, Joe especially wanted to keep playing with the exhibits on circuits, we can’t wait to go back when Samuel is older. In the Star Trek exhibit we decided to get a family portrait on the bridge of the original Enterprise. Call it our new fashioned Italian family portrait.

After that we went to my grandmother’s house in San Francisco and my parents met us there. The next day we visited Ghirardelli Square where my parents worked as teenagers and then went to the Presido and happened upon The Walt Disney Family Museum. It was very expansive and contained all kinds of great facts about how Walt started in cartoons, the end of Oswald and beginning of Mickey and other business challenges, a Multiplane Camera, a huge model of Disneyland in the first few years and a lot more. We were there for 3 hours but could have been there longer. Just outside the building I went for a walk with Samuel in the stroller and got some shots of Golden Gate bridge.

That night we had Thai food and chocolate cake and took a bunch of pictures:

Later in the week we went out to Japanese food, at our favorite place Goshi’s, and had desert at Cold Stone Creamery.

The next day some friends came over and made me yummy mexican food for lunch and chocolate desert. It was fun to see everyone and they know me so well. That night when I came home from work Joe surprised me with a candlelight dinner all prepared with romantic music playing. We even danced a bit and then watched the sweet movie Imagine That. The next day Joe came home from work and surprised me with flowers. He was really excited that he surprised me twice in a row.

Thanks everyone for making my Birthday special.