little adventures

now everywhere we go is a little adventure. because we’re travelling with a little one, and we can’t adventure very far with said little one.

which is not to say that we aren’t making the effort.

after an outing to scary/lovely orinda on saturday for a housewarming party, on sunday, we made snapper’s first foray into 1. downtown oakland for brunch at cock-a-doodle cafe, and 2. the city to visit 3. the apple store! it turns out that snapper is not that excited about apple stuff, even the new iphone and the ipod touch. she is, however, still slimmer and cuter than that odd looking new ipod nano “fatty”. we were actually there to drop off hmc’s macbook pro which has been intermittently yet consistently turning itself off for the past six months. the good news is that it exhibited said behavior for the apple geniuses. the bad news is that now it vanishes into the scary nebulous world of ‘apple repair’. this is the point where we collectively hold our breath, cross our fingers, and pray. sacrifice chickens if you got ‘em.

also we made a quick stop at the h&m in the westfield mall, which, by the way, has a very nice selection of baby clothes that are not positively frightening. while i do believe that 90% of clothes in general are horrid, it’s really apparent that 99% of baby clothes in particular are ghastly, ranging from the merely puzzling (do people really want their kids to look like raggedy andy?) to the truely creepy (CLOWN PANTS?!?). is it so hard to find simple onesies that are say, just black or grey? sure, i know it’s harder to hide spit up on solid colors, but that doesn’t mean you need to plaster my daughter with vomit-patterned pink butterfly ruffle pants. because if i do, someday i’ll have to answer for it.

yesterday we went to the parkway for baby brigade, for 4. snapper’s first movie: the brave one. which was a little odd, because there were no other babies there when the movie started, although thankfully some snuck in later. (those rascally hoodlums!) as for the movie, it was unfortunately only mediocre, which is a little surprising for neil jordan. for some reason the cinematographer decided that the best way to convey fear was to use hitchcock’s camera tricks from vertigo, which would be fine, if it was still 1958. but it’s not. at least snapper got to see jodie foster, who is watchable in anything, although this movie did make for a much better interview than actual movie.

truth be told, she slept through the entire thing. but at least her first movie wasn’t something involving ben affleck.

Posted at October 16, 2007 4:26 PM