Sunday Jazz
On Sunday we went to the Fillmore Jazz Festival as we always do every July 4th weekend. This time we had the baby and it wasn’t really any different with her. As usual, we took the bus to the festival and enjoyed some street food once we got there. The weather wasn’t as hot as it was last year, which was a nice change from our hot day in the sun on Saturday.
After walking around, we headed over to the stage on California and Fillmore and found a good spot on the fake grass to watch our favorite performer, Kim Nally. There was also a bar right behind us selling beer and wine and James and Sylvia brought kettle corn from up the street. Perfect.
We ended up hanging out at Grove for more drinks afterward the festival ended and then had dinner at Florio.
Kumquat was perfectly happy sleeping in my arms the whole evening. By the end of the day, I had a total of 3 glasses of wine and experienced my first buzz in over a year. It was a good Sunday.
On Saturday, we drove out to San Rafael to watch James ride in the San Rafael Twilight Criterium. It was a series of races that took place in Downtown and the cyclists went basically around a block 40 times as fast as they could. Since they went around so many times, it was a fun race to watch and I got lots of opportunities to experiment with my camera settings.
It was a pretty warm day out but since James is on a team that’s sponsored by Muscle Milk, we got to hang out under their tent for some relief. Kumquat did rather well that day and only napped at the beginning. It was too exciting for her and she seemed to enjoy the noise and all the hustle and bustle around her. It was also a good trial run for us for Hawaii. We experienced what it was like to have warmer weather with a sweaty baby and no stroller. 
This is us in the Japanese restaurant where we had lunch.
We had to take turns holding and entertaining her while we ate. It’s an interesting challenge – especially when she’s hungry too.
After James’ two races, he and Jes went to the beer garden while Kumquat and I hung out on the curb watching the other races go by. We also found a Starbucks along the course and got a really good corner window seat to watch the action in the air-conditioned shop. I also had to be creative with where I changed her diapers too.
We finished in time to catch the last half of the race and they were so fast that it was just a blur and a huge gush of wind that would blow by every 30 seconds.
I’m surprised I managed to capture this rider with my camera.
This morning, Kumquat and I made an impromptu trip down to San Jose to see the Chammys. Pish and the family flew up for July 4th and Ishya and Billy came over too. I was also there in time for lunch, which was my aunt’s home cooking. Awesome.
Ishya and Billy didn’t bring the twins but Katie and Kyle got to hang out with Kumquat for a bit.
It was nice to just hang out in my uncle’s house for the afternoon and catch up with the family. Wish I could do it more often.
Last Friday, it was announced that Jes got a promotion at work! He’s worked especially hard this past year and all the around-the-clock meetings paid off! So, last night we celebrated by going out to dinner and took a really nice bottle of wine to Hillstone where they don’t charge a corkage fee. Yay! We used to get wine shipments from Far Niente and Nickel & Nickel but stopped last year when I got pregnant. Now we have a bunch of nice bottles stored up and finally opened this bottle from 2007. It was so yummy and was a perfect compliment to my prime rib!
On July 4th, we went to the Bangs’ for a BBQ. When we arrived, it was swimming with kids. On the grassy area, there was a blanket laid out with 3 babies seated with their respective parent and there were at least 3 toddlers (including our host, Rowan) wandering around the patio area. Then there was Jack, the leader of the bunch playing bocce with his dad. I was so overwhelmed and still felt a little out of place even-though we had an infant there too.
Kumquat hung out on our laps and watched the kids around her.
It was also fun to watch Jack and Reese playing and Jes was even involved in some of the rowdiness.
After we left, we realized that we actually had enough time to pack up the baby and head out to Aquatic Park for some fireworks. We caught the shuttle bus at the Caltrain station and then walked about a mile to the viewing area.
Made it with about 10 minutes to spare and got a pretty decent view. Kumquat hung out in the front carrier and slept through the whole journey over and the fireworks show. 
On our way home, we stopped for pizza. Despite all the activity and noise, our little chubbawub slept through it all. She’s definitely my child.
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