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Last weekend, our family started our summer vacation by taking a short trip to the Los Angeles and Orange County area. While there, we visited UCLA, which we haven't done in about a decade.
We took the girls on a quick tour of some of the main parts of campus, and hoped to visit the conference room within the Community Programs Office (CPO) that was named in Cindy's honor.
Andrew and I were not sure whether we would be able to see it, since it was the weekend, and campus was relatively empty. However, when we walked up the short set of stairs towards CPO, we found the door wide open; although we didn't find anyone inside.
There was definitely some divine intervention that led to the CPO being open. We walked into the office and found Cindy's room was open too; it's named the "Cynthia E. Rabuy Collective Space".
We were excited to have been able to show the girls their Tita Cyn's room. We are also eternally grateful for everyone at CPO, past and present, for continuing to honor Cindy's memory.
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Cindy, Andrew and I always enjoyed watching the show, Whose Line is it Anyway? together. When we used to watch it, some fifteen years ago, Drew Carey was the host and some of the series regulars were Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles and Wayne Brady.
Sometime over the past two or three years, the show began airing again, this time with Aisha Tyler as the host. And thankfully, Colin, Ryan and Wayne were all back on this revived version; along with Laura Hall, the woman who played the piano that accompanied the performers as they made up songs and jingles as part of the show's different improv games.
The other night, I happened to catch part of the show while flipping through channels. Seeing it reminded me of Cindy, and I thought to myself, "I should mention this in a blog entry."
Well I think Cindy decided to use the moment to send me a greeting from above, because just after switching the channel to the show, the next game involved asking the audience for a woman's name to be used as part of a song. The name that was suggested and used just happened to be Cynthia.
