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School is starting soon and while it's been a fantastic summer with many adventures, we realized that we haven't had a "just us" getaway. Chris had a couple of free hotel nights and we decided to venture south to the Ventura/Oxnard area for a last hurrah before school starts.  After a six hour car ride, we made it to Oxnard just in time for dinner. Chris scoped out a Brazilian restaurant that specialized in "mocequa"-- a fish stew cooked in clay pots. One of our favorite restaurant experiences in Brazil when Chris and I traveled there in 2004 was a mocequa seafood restaurant in Brasilia. It's rare to find restaurants that serve it in the US and Moqueca Brazilian Cuisine did it right. It was not high on the kids' list of what they wanted to try but they were good sports and decided it was a fun food experience (of course ordering a picanha steak to share didn't hurt). The restaurant was on the channel near the ocean so we had a lovely view to...

One of the perks of having a Bank of America account is that the first full weekend of every month is "free museum weekend" and account holders can visit a select group of museums sans admission fee. We took advantage of this perk several times while living in Charlotte and this weekend we decided to do the same in San Francisco by vising the Legion of Honor, De Young, and SFMOMA. Visiting the museums in that order worked well from an academic sense in that we started with early collections of Greek and Roman art through Impressionism at the Legion; at the De Young we picked up early native American art through early modern American art (with some representation from other native peoples in other lands), and finished with the most modern at the SFMOMA. Basically we covered everything I learned in my BYU Humanities program in about a day. Legion of Honor It's never a bad sign when Rodin's "The Thinker" welcomes you to a museum. Ellie was excited to me...