I have this theory that you are officially "old" when you have a certain era of music you keep going back to. Sure, I listen to the Top 40 stations still but if you want to get me out on a dance floor, putting on hits from the 90s is the best way to get me to start boppin'! So, when I heard New Kids on the Block was touring with Boyz II Men AND Paula Abdul, I couldn't resist getting tickets to the concert. I was able to convince my old buddies to go too and we made a girls night out of it by meeting up in San Jose for the night! It was the perfect middle point for our group that was coming from LA, SF and Seattle.
The concert was, no surprise, oh-so-fun! Boyz II Men sang all their hits and the concert ended up being a massive sing-a-long fest. Paula Abdul might've been lip synching, but she's still got the moves and could energize the crowd. And, NKOTB was super entertaining - I didn't know a lot of their songs but they sure know how to work the crowd (of mostly middle aged women! haha).
Bonus was that I was able to extend the trip so that I could visit my cute nephews and hang out with Way for a bit!
Thanks, Scott, for watching the girls over the weekend!
Cutie pie Owen.
He was a happy guy that was super smiley!
These two boys make me happy!
Celebrating Erica's birthday!
NKOTB workin' it on stage.
Girls reliving their teenage years!
Just one of the many videos we took. The entire crowd was singing along!
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
I had to do a quick trip to LA towards the end of July to say goodbye to my Uncle Pang, who passed away a few weeks earlier. I have fond memories of fun cousin time at his house in Palos Verdes and Uncle Pang taking us to the beach when we were younger. I remember how he delighted in making us kids squeal with laughter by pretending the car ride was a rolleroaster - we'd take sharp turns and all of us kids would slide to one side of his Volvo station wagon or he'd slow the car down to a roll and we'd all chant that we couldn't let the car stop and it would inch slowly forward at a stoplight. Although it was a sad reason to get together, I think he would be happy to know that the weekend was also a wonderful get together with family. Because it was fairly last minute, none of the kids flew over which meant us "adult cousins" were able to have long talks and linger over food. Kin and Meredith were able to host a summertime bbq at their house and we had a nice t
EEEK! We officially have a teenager in our house! I can't believe our little Evie is now 13 years old. I can still see her as a little girl saying "Swiper no swiping!" For her birthday this year, she and a few of the neighborhood girls went to get their nails done at the salon nearby. She doesn't remember the last time she got her nails professionally done ( back in 2016! ) so she was pretty excited about it. She picked a very pretty teal color. Afterwards, the girls had some cake. To celebrate her actual birthday, her ask was for tv time, shopping and sushi. So after a morning spent hanging out in from the tv, we headed to Bellevue Square mall where guess what? She got a phone! Technically, I got a new phone and handed down my old phone to her. We spent a good 3 hours doing all the transfers but she was very patient about it and grinning from ear to ear when we went to dinner that night. At 13, Evie has become a very stereotypical teenage girl - she loves clothes
It was such a fun weekend for me too! Thanks for spearheading the planning!
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