Author: Doris

Well, we are finally in the Larkspur Landing Hotel, which feels remarkably like home since we’ve stayed here many, many times. Our flight from NY was epic. We left the house at 1 pm for a 7 pm flight. Vince was a bit of a screamer and was tiring for Jeremy. We checked into the Burlingame Hyatt because Vince was a little bit sick and we were worried about contaminating the Machols. The next day we went to Tilden park to meet up with Steve, Tienne, Max, Ben, Marianne, Julia, Sam, Ananda, Tenere and Joiquin. It was a lot of fun and later we went to Steve and Tienne’s house in Berkeley and had a great pizza party. That night, it was hard for Vince to fall asleep. On Sunday, we hung out with Donald and went to the Palo Alto Zoo. The next day I purchased the double stroller and Vince slept in the car for 3 hours. On Tuesday, Vince, Edda and I hung out with Donald all day. We went to the Burlingame park and then to the Stanford Shopping Center. We ended the day by watching the Lakers/Pistons game on TV. By this this time, Jeremy had spoken to Dad’s friend’s brother who gave the keynote address at the conference. On Wed, we went to the park in the morning and then moved all our stuff to the Landing. Today we drove back up to Burlingame and hung out at the park again. This afternoon, we went to Donald’s bike shop Chain Reaction and tried out the little Trek bikes for Vince.

It’s a beautiful, beautiful Memorial Day weekend. Hmmm.. Yesterday we went to the PFP for our veggies and then to Adams for food. Then we went to Eva’s 90th birthday party and listened to a concert. Vince fell asleep in Jeremy’s arms, we actually were all asleep at some point. Had pizza for dinner.

Last night we went to Eileen’s house for dinner. She had pulled out all these toys from Shannon and Lauren’s childhood. The record player with the 5 color disks. It was really nice to see her. Edda had gotten her 2-month shots earlier that afternoon and was fussy on the ride home from dinner and also during the night last night. Today I got her passport pictures taken.

Went to the Poughkeepsie Farm Project today and got spinach, lettuce, broccoli, bok choy and dandylion greens. Got mad at Vince yesterday for breaking my piano. Just lost it. I apologized to him. Ruby, the dog, is slowly being untrained. She’s eating eggs off the dining room table when we aren’t looking.

Last night, we went to Li-Hua’s house for the end-of-year Chinese drama plays. Then we had dumplings for dinner. Vince ran around like a mad man, Edda slept. Today we went to Red Hook for Edda’s 2 month shots/checkup but due to a paperwork snafu, she wasn’t insured. So we are going next week…