Golden Gate Park

Our business trips to Tokyo have piqued Sierra’s interest in Japan. We took her and Kade to Miyake (our local disco sushi restaurant), in the hopes that she could be persuaded at least to eat some rice with soy sauce. Any concerns were misplaced – when the meal arrived, she promptly hoovered up all the raw fish within reach. Expensive tastes start young. Fortunately, Miyake does not serve blowfish.

When Laura left for Tokyo the following weekend, the rest of the crew traveled with her in spirit by visiting the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Kade had a hard time staying out of the water hazards – soaking one sleeve and both pant legs. Their favorite feature was the drum bridge, a semicircular structure ten feet tall with rungs spaced just close enough for them to get over. Neither showed any fear during the ascent or descent- they still feel immortal.

The pictures in this set have had a wild ride. We are switching over to a new Windows Vista server at home (the old Pentium 4 machine struggles mightily during video edits). Don had just gotten the new machine set up with disk redundancy (4 500GB SATA2 drives in a RAID10 configuration, for geeks in the crowd), uploaded this first set of photos and movies, and started editing. On the very first video edit, the machine crashed, giving the blue screen of death and leaving the purportedly redundant disk unable to boot. The photos had already been deleted from the memory card, but with the help of a disk recovery routine downloaded off the internet they were rescued from limbo.

Our advice on Vista: wait a while.