Comic Con Wednesday

Comic con is here again!! And it's Wednesday! That means, preview night!! Get in before ""everyone else!!"" Well, before it was like that, this was our 14th. year in a row going, and from the first few Thursdays, it was great! You could even walk!!

Now it was sooooo packed! It seemed like Friday!! I took a pic from the window, while waiting in line to go inside... yes, the line went all the way outside.... wow..

Tragic News

Monday the 21st. I was supposed to be on vacation, that was Comic Con's week and I wanted to be with my niece for a bit, until I got a call on Monday morning saying that a brother of my immediate boss died and they needed me there.

So they picked me up and I went to work, then after work went to the wake, it was very sad looking at all the family crying (of course) and my boss, who is usually very strong and never shows his feelings, being devastated.

What happened was that they were driving in the highway going to a camping trip in Tecate, a drunk driver came on the oposit side very fast, in a curve, he invaded the other lane and he crashed head on to him.

My boss ran to his car, of course, they were following eachother's car, my boss saw his brother die, his daughter had crashed ribs and hurt her neck, nephew broken arm, niece is on a wheelchair, she hurt her spine, his sister in law is in the hospital with heart damage since she hit the dashboard with her chest, she still (that I know of) she does not know that her husband is dead.

Lesson here, please please please, don't drink and drive, even if you say "nah it's only one beer, or one drink" you don't know how much damage you do to *the others* when you are irresponsible, if you want to kill yourself, fine, go do it yourself and crash on a tree, just don't take innocent lives with you...

At The Zoo

Well well, the day at the San Diego Zoo was awsome, we had tons of fun and she... oh yes, yet again, had her face painted, this time she wanted a dolphin, and of course, because she behaved very good she got the dolphin! Isn't she cute?


We also were VERY lucky when we went to see the baby panda, they were walking around and he was playing... oooooh he is SOOOOOOO cute! I'm posting just one or two pics... makes you want to just hug him!

My Angel's Visit

This week I've been working so I haven't seen Ivy a lot... just at night, when I get home I get to be with her for an hour or so before she goes to bed.
She went to see the Kung Fu panda movie and she loved it! She went to the beach and she was very impressed of how big the ocean was, today, she went to the post office to send a postcard to her parents back home, she baked apple pie and chocolate cup cakes too with grandma!
Yesterday she gave me some paintings so she could sell some paintings to get some money for grandma since she has been spending a lot in her, I told her I could sell them at the office and I brought two for everyone to see, I told my co-workers the story and they bought two paintings! Hehe wow!
I called her on the phone later on today and she was SO excited!! Did they know who I was? she asked, Did they bought them? Ooh I have to make more! I am making some from Hello Kitty!
Just to listen how excited she was I melted, yes yes, I admit it! I'm bonkers about my niece! If she wants me to dance with my head I'll do it! (well not that hard but still) sadly, I have to come to work tomorrow, but after that I will have vacation and comeback on the 29th. we'll mix our time at comic con and Ivy, so I won't be using much the computer, I hope I can at least write how everything is going!
Also, like aunties like nieces!! They love anime! wheee!! They love Totoro (karina and Ivy) and when I wore my Totoro T-Shirt she hugged me a lot and called me Totoro!! Hehehe, now my brother wants one too!! She was also looking at some Sailor Moon videos! YESS! She loves Sailor Moon, she says she's her and yesterday grandma made her hair just like Sailor Moon, she was very excited!!
Anyway, I'll take tons of pictures now that I will be home with her and enjoy the rest of the time I have with her... I'm sure going to miss her.

Sunday, at Legoland

Oooh boy.. my niece is like the energizer bunny! She keeps going and going and going and... going some more... and when you think she's tired.... she goes again more and more... where does such a small girl get all that energy? It's beyond me...

Well Saturday at the circus she had a fun time, she even rode a rea pony! Oh she was so excited!! Of course, aunty Marcia was too!

Sunday was Legoland day!! Or I should say "gimme all your money land" they don't allow you to bring snacks, water or anything unless it's medicated... oh wow... of course it's high robbery what they charge for a soda or a bottled water... but I guess that's where they get their business from, I don't know...

Ivy wanted to get wet, so we looked for games where she could get wet, but while we did that she found a place where they do "face painting" she wanted her face to be like a princess, when she was done there was a princess there and she took a picture with the princess, I told her WOW a real princess and she said "no, that's not a real princess" hehehe




((Ivy face painting take one))


After a few more rides, we found the GET ME SOAKING WET rides, she was wearing her bathing suit, aunt Marcia was not, she was in charge of taking care of Ivy while she was riding this big thing... whatever you call it... it's called "Soak-and-Sail-Pirates Shore, water coming down everywhere (no I don't have pictures of those, my camera would get ruined!) so I was running around the ride around it and taking advantage of the bridges so I would not get "so wet" I read that every so often when the bell rings, there is this HUUUUUGE bucket that gets filled and when it's filled it turns and causes a cascade of water, it's pretty cool, but aunty Marcia did not want to get SOAKING wet... so the first time she hid under a bridge... no problems there got a litle wet not that much... I kept running around, trying to see where she was, taking care that the big kids did not hit her or something (no they hardly have security there) when I was busy trying to dodge a kid that was spraying me like I had a target face or something when suddenly the bells sounded and ... yep! You guessed it!!! But I could "take cover" at least for a bit.

After sometime of getting wet, we went for lunch... San Diego Zoo has much better lunch than then and less expensive! Anyway, after lunch we wanted to have another ride.... a -don't get me wet- ride, and... she found another face painting stand!!! She wanted to be a swan! So... of course, the other paint was washed away and.... we got her another face painting!


((Ivy face painting take two))


After that and some ice cream we went for a nice relaxing boat ride that showed lots of cool things they did, they have this small city made out of legos, it's amazing what they can do with those little bricks... I'll post just one or two of those since this is very long already.

Very Special Guest

We have one special guest at home, my seven year old princess Ivy (well, okay okay, my niece! But she's my princess and nobody can tell me different!), I was afraid that she would not remember me since she does not live near by and I only see her on the webcam once in a while.

So yesterday, when I came back from work, I saw her, she saw me, then she looked at me like she was remembering who I was and then ran and gave me a biiiiig hug.

We spent a lot of time watching Pokemon (she loves Pokemon, she even has a Pokemon toothbrush!) and then she went to sleep.

This morning mom sis and her were already having breakfast when suddenly I came downstairs with a "fake" sleepy face and leaned on her, she laughed, she was eating a piece of toast and I said "may I have your toast?" and she immediately covered it and and said "no it's mine" LOL Today we'll go to the circus, we will see how it goes! Yes I will spoil her to death!
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Tenemos un visitante muy muy especial en casa, su nombre es Ivy mi princesa de siete años, tenia miedo de que ella no me reconociera, puesto que hace mas de dos años que no la veia, solo por la webcam la veia de vez en cuando.

Ayer que llegue de trabajar y me vio, como que queria ver quien era yo, se quedo un ratito viendome y de repente una sonrisota dibujo su cara y corrio a darme un abrazote, obviamente me derritio! Jejeje Nos la pasamos viendo Pokemon (le gusta mucho! Hasta tiene cepillo de dientes de Pokemon) y se durmio como un angelito.

Hoy en la maniana, abuelita, tia Tania y ella estaban desayunando, bajo yo con cara de "dormida" y a Ivy le dio risa, luego vi que estaba comiendo un pedazo de pan tostado y le dije "me regalas tu pan?" y luego luego lo tapo, me vio feo y dijo "no" jajaja

Hoy vamos a ir al circo, veremos que tal nos va... y si, la vamos a concentir muuuuucho!