Dad still thinks the class of 1986 thought pretty highly of themselves... We went up to the University of Puget Sound to see the Crosby-Schmidts... |
Jane came up from LA to surprise Wolverine... I mean Sam... |
Mom and Cathy look just like they did when they were in school... |
This is just Dad being silly - he created a 2022 plaque and put it in the right place on the sidewalk for Sam's class... |
Dad calls this one "The Old Man and the Sea" but I don't think Chris appreciates being called old... |
Of course the reason we were there was to see Sam in The Three Penny Opera... |
At our own Pacific University we high school students held a climate change protest... we had almost as big a crowd as Donald's inaguration... |
We went to California and Texas for Spring Break - here I am at the San Jose airport! |
And here I am in front of some wall art in Napa! (Dad has to point out that the iPhone blurred my hat as well as the background...) |
I guess I left out that we also went to the North Pole for Spring Break... |
This was just a big church that Dad had to really work at to get the whole thing into one picture... |
And this is Dad's attempt at making an "old" post card of Napa... |
Which family members are the natural smilers? You be the judge... |
This is why we were in Napa... Dad wanted to see Morgan James... |
Since we were in a small jazz club we were close enough to actually see the show... |
Then we went to Austin so I could visit with Gran and Maddog's dogs... (Dad didn't take pictures of Gran, Maddog, Gwen, Greg, Leiza, ...) |
But he (and Mom) did take pictures of bluebonnets... |
Lots of bluebonnets... |
And more bluebonnets (and they made me pose in the bluebonnets...) |
Those are actually more bluebonnets behind Mom and me... |
Finally Dad made Mom pose in the bluebonnets too... |
And naturally Mom had to take selfies... |
And then make me pose for more bluebonnet pictures... |
No concert ussie this month, so we went with a bluebonnet ussie instead... |
Mom thought the last one was too flat, so Dad pumped up the background and posted it again... |
Mom did take a picture of me with Reve and Robbie to prove that we did see someone in Austin, not just dogs and flowers... |
Here's Dad's new toy... a little newer than the last one... (in fact, this one didn't exist when he bought the last one) |
Caroline is worried that if she dies I'll replace her as fast as I replaced my car... I don't see the connection at all, but I did manage to find a new (to me) car pretty fast once the insurance was all cleaned up... I've only included one picture of the new one. You can see the original picture of the old one by going back to August 2005, though Lucie featured more prominently in that one...
So anyway there was a good bit of travel in the month of March and none of it was for business... Maybe I'll get lucky again, but I suspect there will be at least one business trip in April... Maybe there will be some points of ellipsis as well... You never know...
But I digressed again. This month we drove up to Tacoma, flew to San Jose, drove to Napa (actually Aunt Magie drove), and flew to Austin. Along the way we saw Cathy, Chris, Jane, Sam, Maggie, Gran, Maddog, Greg, Leiza, Gwen, Reve, and Robbie. We also saw a lot of people we don't know like the guy at the reception desk at the hotel in Tacoma, but if I list everyone that we saw along the way it will look like the credits at the end of a Marvel movie...
We're already in the fourth paragraph of the monthly blog and I haven't even mentioned March Madness. Oh wait. Now I have. I predict that some team will win.
What else can I talk about related to March? How about March 1st, 2007 when the Swiss invaded Liechtenstein? Don't believe me? What if I told you that the Swiss have invaded Liechtenstein three times since 1985? They blew up a significant chunk of the Bannwald forest on December 5th, 1985 (oops). They set up a forward observation post in Treisenberg on October 13, 1992 (oops again). Then they marched back across the border on March 1st, 2007 getting almost halfway across the country before being repulsed... OK, so they got 1 mile in (the whole country is only about 2 miles wide) and realized they were in the wrong place (oops again again) and went home. It sounds better the other way, but you're probably going to look up Liechtenstein / Swiss relations now aren't you? My mission here is done!
Enjoy the pictures (but don't look for any of Liechtenstein)!