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April 24, 2013

(People) San Jose Fantasy Faire 2013

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Last year at this event, we were impressed by how people prepared and really dressed up as medieval and/or fairy tale characters for 2 days of fun in a make-believe world at Guadalupe Park in San Jose, CA. This year, even more impressive with more attendees, more costumes and more food kiosks. We joined in the fun by dressing up our bundle of joy as a baby dragon - an idea we got from watching Game of Thrones and Merlin (tv shows).

March 6, 2013

Napa Valley: Downtown Napa

Napa Valley is the most popular wine country in California. For Presidents' day weekend, we decided to take the San Francisco-Sausalito route to Napa, which was about a 2-hour roadtrip. After some light to moderate traffic, we reached Sonoma county which was just a few miles away from Downtown Napa.

Downtown Napa is where the nightlife is. Many travelers to this tourist-packed place long for a taste of the real Napa wine and being the location of award-winning Culinary Ins titute of America, a taste of succulent cuisines should not (never!) be missed. The 55-mile long Napa River is situated in the very heart of downtown, as well as where the famous centuries-old Napa River Inn is located. A fine and brief walking tour around the area led us to a block full of high end dress shops, wine tasting rooms, fine dining restaurants and bars. We found Morimoto Napa, by my favorite iron chef Masaharu Morimoto, for lunch. I love the decors of this Japanese restaurant - using dry grapevines on walls are very authentic Napa!