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4th Annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day, January 30-31, 2010

Posted by: Emily on: January 10, 2010

No excuse for not posting here since Thanksgiving, but here’s my excuse for not posting anything for the next few weeks — we’re deep in the throes of Puzzle Day planning for this year’s event.  Here’s a quick write-up in case you haven’t heard me talking about it over and over again. ————– Details and [...]

Just got this announcement by email: Come downtown to see What’s Up Doc! You are invited to the only Northern California exhibit of world renowned animator Chuck Jones’ artwork. The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity has generously agreed to bring this exhibit to downtown Morgan Hill for this exclusive showing. Now through August 20th at [...]

Playground #6: The playground at the library

Posted by: Emily on: April 15, 2009

It’s hard to believe that this is the first time I’ve taken Clara to play at the playground behind the library given how much time we spend at the library, but we finally checked it out as part of our playground explorations (Clara had been before during Puzzle Day weekend while I was busy).  It’s [...]

Playground #5: Diana Park

Posted by: Emily on: April 14, 2009

Clara and I tested out Diana Park yesterday.  We had been there before for a playdate with our Mom’s group, but hadn’t really checked out the playground.  Most of the grassy area was being torn up for some construction, but Clara enjoyed climbing up the stairs and going down the slide in the tot area [...]

Playground #4: Nordstrom Park

Posted by: Emily on: April 5, 2009

After our Passover Storytime at Booksmart, we went out for coffee with Suzanne, Mike and Elise and then walked over across the street to Nordstrom Park.  It’s another great playground with separate areas for 2-5 yr old kids and 5+ year olds (and has the added benefit of being across the street from not only [...]

Playground #3: Paradise Park:

Posted by: Emily on: April 5, 2009

Another playground for our list, and probably my favorite so far, was Paradise Park. It’s only a couple of minutes from our house. We used to ride our bikes there and then pick up the path that follows the creek but hadn’t tried out the playground with Clara before. She had a great time. I’ve [...]

Playground #2: Jackson Park

Posted by: Emily on: March 30, 2009

Located right next to Jackson Elementary School (which also had a playground that we tried out), Jackson Park (on Trail Drive) is another of Morgan Hill city parks with a nice playground. Clara liked the tic tac toe game: And the slides had cool bumps in them

Playground 1: Community Park

Posted by: Emily on: March 29, 2009

After seeing the cool playground finder/review site at http://playspacefinder.kaboom.org, I resolved to go try out some new playgrounds (especially because Clara loves slides and things these days.)   Today we went to try out the playground at the Morgan Hill Community Park.  There’s a special area for 2-5 year olds separate from the bigger kid playground [...]

Puzzle Day 2009

Posted by: Emily on: February 9, 2009

Phew! The Third Annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day is over and done and was — by all reports — a tremendous success! Saturday was packed full of workshops and a Puzzle Party fundraiser for our new Library Foundation and then Sunday we had sudoku and crossword tournaments (plus bonus rounds of killer sudoku and cryptic [...]

Those of you who know me recognize that in the weeks leading up to our annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day event (this year on Feb 7 – 8 ) I tend to get a bit obsessed with crosswords and sudoku and the posts and links here get very puzzle-dominated.  Well, we’re definitely in full gear [...]


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