Thursday, November 06, 2008

Liz, Kim, Sydney and the Wish Trees

Tonight, Liz was in town and Sydney and I ventured to old town Pasadena with her. After partaking in my favorite Sushi (yum yum, Shima roll) We discovered Wish Tree Pasadena, which is part of Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace tribute to John Lennon. There were 21 wish trees and you could take part by placing your wish on the tree. The wishes will be collected at the end of this week and sent to Yoko Ono. They will ultimately be sent to Iceland for inclusion in the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island off the main shore.

The wish trees were really cool and they included all kinds of wishes ranging from the sincere "I wish my dad didn't have cancer" to the dreamer "I wish I was like Michael Phelps" to the funny "I wish you were like me". So of course, we took some pictures for the blog:






Note my attempt above to get a picture without cutting off Sydney's head. Below is me putting my wish on the wish tree. I thought and thought trying to come up with the perfect wish. On the list in my head there was "I wish I won the lottery", "I wish work decisions were easier", "I wish Palin was elected VP". There were many wishes I considered but I finally came up with this one:

7 comments:

Jane said...

I wish Alice would start a blog too!!!

Liz gets to do all the fun stuff

Queen B said...

RO! That is awesome. I wonder if you won the lotto if you could hire Alice to be your personal blogger.

Paula said...

LOL! I would love to go see that. Sounds awesome!

Jenn Ann said...

I also think Alice should start a blog!!!

Ann said...

Great pics! I love the wishing tree!

Ruth Anne said...

definitely, love the reminder to Alice.

Anonymous said...

The trees were way cool! You could just roam for hours and read all the different wishes. Some very heartbreaking and very personal.

So Kim, when I got back to the hotel and turned on the TV...I swear the doggie treat bakery we went to afterwards was on! They didn't really show the name. But the place looked just like it.

Thanks for a great time in old town! We'll have to do it again.