I would have to agree. The show at the LA Coliseum is an hour long and has an amazing finale. AM & I were talking and neither of us can remember anything so grand from our childhood experiences. They started abruptly with a small, short barrage of the loud variety and I thought Sebastian was going to demand to leave immediately. But he stuck it out and by the end he was having a great time. Below is the grand finale of the event — not the best quality of video but you get the picture:
Last night they had a free event at the Japanese American Cultural Community Center (JACCC) in Little Tokyo and they showed the pilot episodes for Astro Boy (1963) and Gigantor (1964). The also showed the original Japanese version of Voltron, but decided to have a DJ create a live soundtrack, so it was a little disappointing. Still, we had a great time and enjoyed some veggie hot dogs from a cart, some ice cream from a truck, and some good anime from Japan. Woo hoo!
We made another trip to the La Brea Tar Pits yesterday and had a good time poking the tar and looking at the fossils. The helpful excavators working on project 23 directed us to an exceptionally gooey deposit that was bubbling up with the sticky stuff and AM & Sebastian were fascinated by it. That isn’t to say that I wasn’t, only that I tend to be a little clumsy and didn’t want to get too close, lest I become the latest victim of “the the tar tar pits.”
There are some photos of our day here and we’ll have some more this week as Sebastian is graduating from kindergarten TOMORROW! Check back soon!
I just realized that it has been almost four months since the last post here on SEBlog… I think that any family news has been communicated either on my other site or via the phone, but I wonder if this site has lost its purpose. The point of this whole thing was to keep a record of Sebastian’s life, and I still want to do that, but is this the proper format? Maybe it is, and I just need to be disciplined about it’s upkeep. Perhaps a weekly update to start. I don’t know and will have to think about it…
Well, Sebastian’s break from school has officially begun! The school had a Christmas pagent on Thursday night. Each class performed a song and dance with costumes and all. The kindergarten song was “Mi Burrito Sabanero” and they were all so damn adorable!
I can’t remember any xmas performances that I participated in during school — did we not have them or am I blocking them from my memory for some reason? Anyway, enjoy the pictures and we’ll update again soon!
It has been a while, no? Sorry ’bout that. Haven’t had the urge to post lately, I guess. And even now I don’t have much to say, except that there are some newer photos up at our gallery. The pics from school are from Sebastian’s walk-a-thon: The kids walked for a half-mile around the school to (surprise) raise money. He had a good time and it is for a good cause, but a half-mile? That’s 6 blocks! Seems to me they could’ve made it more challenging, but maybe that’s just me. The other photos, for the most part, come from our day spent in Claremont last week. So have a look and enjoy!
We made the trek to the spider pavillion at the Natural History Museum yesterday and I must say it was impressive. The crowds were much lighter than at the “Pavillion of Wings” exhibit, due both to a USC game at the stadium next door (I imagine, at least, that parking is at a premium around Exposition Park during USC football) and to the inherent “ewwww” factor normally associated with spiders. An interesting factoid, though, is that there are about 40,000 species of spiders in the world and only 28 are considered “potentially dangerous” to humans. Still, I wouldn’t want this crawling on me:
Sebastian began drawing pictures of rockets yesterday evening, inspired by Wallace & Gromit in “A Grand Day Out”. He then moved on to jet planes an filled page after page. Note the flags on some of his jets, as well as the details of the person guiding the plane on the runway. We thought we’d share his art with the family, so enjoy!