Although I don’t often watch award shows, I was delighted to get an invitation to Matt and Karie’s Fourth Annual Oscar party. Even their entry table was perfectly coordinated and detailed. While I knew I wasn’t going to get the prize for most correctly predicted Oscars, in part as I hadn’t seen that many movies nominated this year, I knew it was going to be a great time and I was right. One of the coolest parts of the party was having a small but vocal group react to the nominees, entertainment and speeches. It was kind of like being in a Mystery Science 3000 episode, though the TV show wasn’t that bad, though there were moments of pure groaning from our audience.
While I was right that I didn’t win the prize for the most correct answers (copies of all ten movies nominated for best picture, I didn’t get the least amount right (3 in this case), either. I predicted 11 right, not bad considering I’d gone off of things I’d heard about the movies, or the the cases of some of the documentary and foreign categories, titles I liked.
Our host Matt, read off the winning name, left, and it turned out to be his sister, Raeanne, right.
Although I’ve lived in San Jose for a number of years, I’d never been to Hawgs Seafood Bar until this week. When my Dining Around the World Group picked it as their spot of the month, I couldn’t wait to try it out. I had the oyster shooters and the dungeness crab and prawns angel hair pasta.
On Saturday a few members of my running group decided to run a new route, all over pavement/concrete through Silver Creek Valley Road and along some beautiful golf club, country club and residential areas. It’s a testament to my desire to get new photos and have new running experiences that I went, as it was billed as 7 miles with huge hills.
The first hill at the beginning looked especially daunting. You can see how steep it is by comparing how big the houses are in front, with those near the top of the arch. We ended up walking a lot of this hill and did the run/walk/run pattern mainly after it, with some walking at the end of our route as well.
In the middle of our run it was pointed out to me that Highway 101 was underneath us, so I took a photo of that as well.
This wasn’t a particularly significant place on our journey, yet the arches framed the palm trees and bikers so well.
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