A TRIP TO THE ASIAN MUSEUM IN SAN FRANCISCO

One of my new little jobs as a member of Creative Arts League was to host a trip to San Francisco to go to the Asian Museum.
CALS sponsors five trips a year and it is one of our money raising efforts. Generally speaking members of the tour committee and board members are the on-bus hosts of the tours.
I had only been on one previous tour and was ill prepared to be a host, but fortunately Pam who can do anything had set up and everything so perfectly that I was just a warm body.

My cohost was Dianne, and the day before the trip we met at her house with help from Lillie and Pam, and assembled 50 snack bags for all the participants.

We had to arrive at Arden fair on the morning of the tour at 8:30 AM to be ready for the bus departure at 9:30 AM. Our duties were to check people in, hand out the goody bags, collect waivers from people who hadn't turned them in, and be sure that people who need specifically reserved seats got those seats.
Once on the bus it was smooth sailing. Our bus driver was wonderful and when we arrived in San Francisco we were met by an employee of the Asian Museum.
We had a wonderful chicken salad lunch and were free to roam the entire museum including be terra-cotta Warriors.
That was fantastic. They had two horses and about 10 of the Warriors. This is the exhibit's last stop before it returns to China. The picture at the beginning of the blog is a digital version of what the warriors might have looked like. Apparently they were all glazed, but the glaze has worn off from years of being buried. The following pictures are what they actually look like now.

That was fantastic. They had two horses and about 10 of the Warriors. This is the exhibit's last stop before it returns to China.
This was a good experience for me as a first time host. This was the easiest thing I could have done because people only had to get on the bus at the beginning, off the bus at the destination, and return.
I made myself a new Asian motif necklace for the event, and with my hat that I got for Christmas, I think I looked pretty spiffy.