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\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>We enjoyed the recent spring weather by firing up our grill and inviting neighbors like Jamie and Ying’s families over for wings and burgers on our patio. To avoid getting cooped up at home over Memorial Day weekend, we made a last-minute booking for an overnight stay in San Jose. We headed out early Sunday for breakfast pho and bun rieu at Pho Kim Long<\/a>, then drove to the Winchester Mystery House<\/a> to tour the Victorian mansion. The widow of the famed rifle maker was purportedly told to continue building the house to escape evil spirits, leaving many rooms unfinished or oddly laid-out, with doors to nowhere, low-rise staircases, spiderweb windows, and base-13 motifs that lend itself well to ghost stories. For lunch, we went to Udon Mugizo<\/a>, followed by strawberry sandos from Clover Bakery<\/a>, and matcha soft-serve and mango mochi from Mochi-Ya Ren<\/a>. Entrance to the Tech Interactive Museum<\/a> was delayed by an unsupervised ticket booth newbie, but we at least made it to the Cities of the Future<\/a> IMAX film before checking out the Space Exploration<\/a>, Body Motion, Social Robots, and BioDesign<\/a> exhibits. A trail of costumed individuals led us to crowds taking photos outside FanimeCon<\/a> on the way to the parking lot. We surprised Westley with our overnight stay aboard a school bus<\/a> on a farm. Matt the owner gave us a tour of the rescue horses, chickens, ducks, turkey, llamas, dogs, goats, pigs, and cats that call the place home, and even let us feed the chickens before we fed ourselves hearty kalbi jim at Daeho<\/a> for dinner. We juiced up our car at a charging station<\/a> over Tong Sui’s<\/a> coconut pudding before returning to the bus. We awoke Monday to stroll the wildflower fields with the goats and dogs, then enjoyed poolside bun cuon<\/a> and cream buns<\/a>. The Computer History Museum<\/a> gave us the chance to geek out to vintage computers, mainframes, disk drives, and search engines, although Westley was more interested in the Retro Games exhibit. Given the 2-hour wait for dim sum<\/a> in Milpitas, we opted instead for hand-pulled DH Noodles<\/a> on the way to relive Melody’s childhood memories at California’s Great America<\/a>. For only an afternoon, we went without a lightning pass, but was glad that Westley finally made the 48″ cutoff to enjoy Whitewater Falls<\/a>, Barney Oldfield’s Redwood Rally<\/a>, Rue le Dodge<\/a>, Mass Effect: New Earth<\/a>, both levels of the Double-Decker Carousel Columbia<\/a>, and even the Demon<\/a> roller coaster. We concluded our micro-getaway with Ramen Shu<\/a> and treats from Sheng Kee<\/a> to join our stash of leftovers for the following week.<\/p>\n\n\n

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