Holly Daze: Love Our Neighborhood Day

Monday, June 1, 2015

Love Our Neighborhood Day

I haven't been posting on here for a long time it's hard to do with Lyra... And Facebook makes it so much easier when you can upload groups of 30 pictures and just make little comments on them all in one little Easy screen... But today I have more than 30 pictures so I thought I should do a full-fledged blog post. Now that Lyra is 18 months I'm starting to have a little bit more time and so I'm hoping to post a little bit more regularly maybe not every day like I did with Holly but maybe at least two or three times a month

So A friend of mine recently asked me to reflect on turning 40 and what things I wanted for the new year... one of the things I said was to be more spontaneous. So I saw this flyer at 2:30 this afternoon and even though the event ended at 4:00 I decided to take the girls and walk on over.

So this neighborhood event was happening, they closed San Pablo Ave. from Ashby all the way to Stanford and outside in the streets their were lots of vendors and stores with tables, it was full neighborhood people and little things to see and do.

This guy was playing Cello and his amp was being powered by bike

Here was a chalk drawing area

Lyra was enjoying the walk and Holly thought it was cool to be in the middle of the street

She decided to draw some flowers

Next we checked out some spray paint art

I liked this storm trooper

There was music everywhere. I'm not sure what the style is called but they had hand drums and these tall string bows they were strumming

We saw a screen printing place, Holly recognized it as we recently had screen printing of t-shirts at MX

She wanted to give it a try

She made a cool poster that said live my neighborhood with a hand drawing

This is a close up of some street art I see driving all the time

This one I never notice because the door is usually up

Holly liked this one because she was pink, I hadn't seen it before because it was tucked around this ledge

Maybe a camel?

Another music pop up with a close up of the bows

Giant chess set

So we ran into lots of people, first Lila R at a Bike Booth, then Mo and Stella at this cool water area

There were materials to build little boats

Lyra liked splashing

The boats were set at the top and then they floated down several ramps

The water recycled through a pump and was a closed system

There were plants and rocks and obstacles

Holly made several boats with little animals but she kept loosing them her favorite had a little Orka

We could have stayed for hours but there was little time and a long way to go so we moved on

This giant tree was another mobile music player run on peddle power

This dog was super cute, Lyra kept pointing at him

So this is hard to see but there was a band playing in that little alley way and about 100 people squeezed in and moshing! It was cool

And then there was the duck!

We ran into Kaya walking too, so she joined us for a bit.

Here all the kids climbed up

It was a super cool car duck

At another booth called Ace Monster Toy they had this cool marble toy set up.. The booth was for a "hacker mom" type Wirk space for crafty people to work on projects.