My amazing wife got me tickets this close to the opera. Carmen is – as always – amazing. The version I remember from elementary school was vastly more g rated than today’s R rated performance …

The decision to set the opera in Franco’s Spain and amp up the sexuality works surprisingly well.

My sister who is an opera singer and who loves this role has her birthday today! A curious way for me to celebrate her birthday … Attending a performance of Carmen …

As for the sour face, it’s because I felt weird taking a selfie this close to the stage …

My kid asked me today:

Dad can you tell me the rules of cricket?

I’m from Canada and Greece. I don’t do cricket and I barely do baseball.

And I was like huh?

But I am in Sunnyvale. Home of the nationally ranked Sunnyvale Cricket Club. 

And so … We went to Stan’s Donuts and watched the highlights of some India-Pakistan World Cup game. 

And here he is learning the game from a YouTube video. 

Because YouTube has cricket videos and several million other clips.

When I was a kid about Nicholas’ age I played my first bit of dungeons and dragons.

And so after getting him hooked on balder’s gate we played the real thing.

Here we are learning about various monsters.

Goblins and dragons and gnolls, oh my!

  
Chaos from afar …

 
Before …

  
Initial contact with color

  
Dad and son chillaxing

  
An obligatory selfie …

  
Danced to Bollywood songs and now relaxing on the grass …

  
Going home …

 
Last selfie of the day 

  
Got a runny for kicking like a dolphin

  
And we look like this… A few minutes later there was tears as we fell less elegantly …

  
Eron and nick! Eron doing teaching and me doing daddy thing of taking pictures…

And we are rolling ! 

  
We got our face painted …

  
Took some shots and played in the park again!

And on our way back in the car this happened

Here we are going to the game

  
And the reason we love afternoon games?

   
 
Because there is a really cool park outside the Shark Tank. 

And we saw the game:

 
The score aligned with the shots on game.  

Watching the players warm up    

A selfie 

After the game got tied … Dillon tried really hard to stop a 2 on 1. Some fans were not delighted…

   
The goalie’s positioning is weak and his side to side movement is slow.

 
Happy to be here!