I have returned! I know I promised a surprise, and now I doubt many will be surprised, because it took me so long to get around to uploading these pictures! But, here we go!
On Tuesday, February 1, I had to pack.
On Wednesday, I said goodbye to my family, and went to the airport,
where I took this picture of the day's headlines, and hoped my re-routed flight would make it out of Syracuse. The airport was practically deserted, so it didn't look good.
However, I made it to San Francisco, and spent Thursday with Arnie. I took this beautiful shot of the city at sunset. Arnie made me his famous General Tso's Chicken for dinner.
On Thursday evening, my sister arrived, and on Friday, we spent the day with our cousins and their children at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. It was fun to catch up, and explore the combination museum and aquarium. Since it was sunny and in the 70s, Missy and I also stopped at the Japanese Tea Garden, and had tacos just outside of the park while sitting in the sun.
On Saturday, Arnie took us to brunch at this nice restaurant just below the Bay Bridge. The cherrystone clams were raw, but delicious, and we had a wonderful and relaxing meal.
We also made an afternoon stop at the dog park, where Arnie has his own bench (no kidding!) Shimon and Lassie definitely know that this is their place! We had crab fest for dinner. Yummm!
On Sunday, we had brunch at the Palace Hotel, took a drive to Sausalito, and came home across the Golden Gate Bridge. What a lovely visit! We just ate, relaxed, and ate some more!
On Monday, it was already time to return to cold, and snowy New York. But before we left early Monday morning, we were treated to this beautiful sunrise!
Another view of that sunrise.
In San Francisco, I picked up this real dog toy that is like the kid toy we were letting Copper play with. Here he is playing with it on Tuesday, Feb. 8th.
C. is playing one of her favorite computer games on Wednesday the 9th.
The Valentine's Day treats the kid's gave to their friends.
D. is working on a book report. Book reports take up a lot of your time in 5th grade!
D. is asleep at 9:30 in the morning on a school day. Very rare on any day. He had developed an ear infection Monday evening.
Joe had the cold, too, but not the ear infection.
Copper likes to make a nest in the sorted laundry. He pushes the clothes around with his nose, circles around the requisite 3 times, then plops down to relax after all of his hard work!
D. made a mobile of the element Nitrogen for his Science class. For all you chemists out there, the 7th electron is hidden behind the nucleus. The mushrooms are the protons, and the foil circles are the neutrons. We were glad he was able to finish it on time, even though he had a few rough days this week.
