Road Warriors

For T's final spring break as a grad student, we opted to reprise last year's trip to California. Of course, there was one small-but-mighty change: the little bump that we brought along in 2008 is now a nearly 9-month-old Luca!

The week was action packed, and though our trips to California are never long enough we certainly did our best to get a lot into this one. We started with a visit to the Mazzoccos in San Jose, then headed to San Francisco for a lunch visit with Bette and Jason and some quality time with Luca's friend AJM and her parents. Then it was back to San Jose before driving down to Newport Beach for quiet, family time and to San Diego to visit with PopPop & Herta. Luca was an excellent travel companion, whether observing the view from the backseat of our rental PT Cruiser, or sitting in our laps on the plane.



T brought a new hobby home with him, thanks to a tip from Jason. He's hooked on Google SketchUp and spent most of Saturday with a measuring tape and his laptop in hand. The result is this handy model of our front rooms which we are using to dream up new furniture configurations and paint colors. Next project for the junior architect: the back yard.