It's Spring! The warm weather and blooming trees (in Seattle at least) are a nice change from the winter gray and drip. We're just back from a quick visit to Chicago to see Dave before the rooftop farming gets too intense. Unfortunately, we found that the gray and drip had gone to Chicago.
Dave, Dali's Visions of Eternity, and L
We had a very enjoyable poke through the collection in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Not everyone likes Surrealism, including Dave and L who seem to have opted for staring into the corner .
News & Notes
We are happy to report that our family and friends in Japan are alright following the recent earthquakes and tsunami. Though they all came through the disasters well, we are saddened by the devastation that has befallen one of our favorite countries.
In a related item, our traveling companion David Baduel has left Haiti where he was working for the World Food Program dealing mostly with post-earthquake nutrition needs. He is off to Liberia working in a border town near Ivory Coast, where he will be dealing with refugee nutrition needs.
Chicago...so many restaurants, so little time! Thankfully we have the expertise of both Dave and his girlfriend, the delightful Megan Larmer, to make sure we hit the highest points, accompanied by great champagne.
Bubbly at 'Pops'
We rendezvoused with the Laura and Alden Snyder family to celebrate Anna's 9th birthday. Dinner with old people and her sisters (Miggie and Nora) was not her main celebration ... the next day she and her friends battled it out in a "Cupcake Wars" party.
Nora, Alden, Anna, J, Miggie and Laura
Dan gave a lecture for the Science Club's Career Day at
Middle Georgia College. We are pretty sure it will result in
a whole lot of people out searching for dead stuff with big
teeth.
We missed the Chicago Rarities Orchard Project's fund raiser, but we still got these terrific Dave-designed tee shirts. For $25 you can have one, too: davesnyATgmailDOTcom
Cotton CROP
Despite his reported retirement, L has been teaching a class during Winter quarter called Computer Science Principles. It was an experimental class and took a lot of work. For his efforts he was voted a "teacher of the year" by UW's National Pan-Hellenic Council (sorority women).