Adventures Downtown

You could call me Aimee's lackey in a sense -or "Donkey" as Aimee's two-year old son Kaleb affectionately titles me- for I follow her around and help her out wherever she goes during my work hours. When she needed to venture to an office building downtown to pick up gems for an order, I went with her. While Aimee consulted with the lapidary master at Hong's Gem Cutters [below], I entertained adorable Kaleb with pop-up books, markers, and Ranger Raccoon. Still, his

attention could not be held for all that long, but I tried to watch over him.

After a lunch sitting by the steps of the Jewish Contemporary Museum, trying to bear the typical San Francisco wind but relishing the rare sunshine, we then returned to the office building to talk to the stone setter. Generally Aimee enjoys setting the stones in her pieces, but these gems in particular, she confided, would be a pain to deal with. Being as small as two millimeters or less in length, these stones require extreme diligence to set in place, so as to avoid needless agitation, Aimee leaves this task to the professionals to get the job done quickly and efficiently.