Raining late at night ( Read more... )

Ten years ago tomorrow I started this journal. My hope had been to write something typically verbose and pointless to mark the occasion, but tomorrow I'll be on a cruise ship, and this morning all I have is my iPod and not much time to kill. So self-aggrandizement will have to wait ( Read more... )

In a couple of weeks, Maddy and I will be going on a cruise to Cabo San Lucas. This is partly because our sister and soon-to-be brother-in-law, Christa and Ryan, will be getting married on said cruise ship before it embarks, and invited us to go with them on the cruise that followed, and partly because it's an excuse to spend the better part of a ( Read more... )

Where to begin?

( Hawaii )

So, it's all settled. We have our reservations, ticket confirmations, and guidebooks ( Read more... )

In just a few hours, I'll be taking off into the wild blue yonder with Maddy, with the help of a Delta Airlines plane. We're going to Philadelphia ( Read more... )

We had a nice time up in the mountains. Going to The Lair of the Golden Bear (Cal's Alumni Association family camp) can barely be described as camping. It's really more like a resort with a big-pine-trees-and-dust theme. Camping generally implies roughing it a little. At the lair, the closest you come to roughing it is that the mattresses sag ( Read more... )

We're going to the Lair!!

( OK, so what is the Lair? And why am I exited? )

We made our farewells to our hosts before bed, on Sunday night. They would both be leaving for work early Monday morning, and we didn't want to get up any earlier than we had to.

-- There's always a difficult balance to maintain when on vacation, between resting and doing cool stuff. sometimes you feel like you need to do lots of things because ( Read more... )

It was a nice day out.

We started with a leisurely breakfast of eggs, toast, and sausages, and all talked about our parents and how ridiculous they are.

After the morning routine was finished we set out for Korbel, a nearby winery that happens to be the largest producer of premium methode champenoise sparkling wines in the country. We took a ( Read more... )