Places

Highly recommended place to visit if you’re here in the summertime and can get your hand on tickets… namely the Walking Tour tickets. Not kid-friendly, so try to find a babysitter who can babysit late into the night, so you can free yourself to be amongst the stars. Be sure to click on the “Read on Metafrost” link to get Read more...

My journey towards reducing our family’s waste has been slowly chugging along. I’ve been using this card company for our Christmas cards and had a good experience with them. Pros: – High Quality Cards – Designer can proof your card. They improved my photo layout, but I had to catch my own typos. – Plant a tree for every order Read more...

Local photographer in Montana servicing family portraits, events and also takes landscape photos. I encountered this photographer at the Saturday Market in Missoula and have been a fan of his work since then. Read more...

Local bakery and cafe in Missoula, Montana. On our visit to Missoula, our friend took us to this cafe for a very enjoyable lunch. The bakery also featured pies made from local ingredients. We tried the Huckleberry pie, which was sourced from gardens locally. Highly rerecorded cafe for those in the area, with good food, drinks, local flavors, cute ambiance Read more...

Through the years, we’ve hired many family photographers, but we keep thinking back to this one photographer (who sadly has moved further away) as still the one that gave us the best photos… Sarah Deragon. She does Families, Business and Professional Headshots Read more...

Pearl tea (boba) chain in Santa Clara. This location seems to be decent, slightly better than the Mt. View location (just my opinion). I found that when with 75% sugar, it’s still too sweet. They offer organic milk/foam option.. go for it as it seems to taste better. Not my top choice for boba, but good enough. Read more...

Recently opened in Santana Row! I’ve yet to purchase anything there, but I definitely will next time. Why am I listing this even though I haven’t tried anything? It’s just too cute, too pink and too interesting not to share.They sell food, snacks and merchandise. The menus are all in icon format, much too cute.The cookies are so perfectly iced Read more...

Stopped by this cafe on our way back home from Tahoe and was very impressed. The food was good, the coffee was good, the smoothies were good. It was a lively place and easy to get to. This is now my favorite go-to place for getting a quick lunch/bite and to stock up for the drive home from Tahoe. Read more...

Yayoi is a modern Japanese comfort food place in Cupertino. You wait to get seated at the front, then you order through the iPads on your table. Additional requests for extra utensils and etc are also done via the iPad. Dessert ordering is done through the iPad too, as well as setting your status to “Ready for dessert”. At the Read more...