And before I knew it, we were done. We gave back all the stuff we had begged, borrowed, or stolen, packed up a rental car, and drove to California!
I surprised myself-- I was REALLY sad to leave. We had settled in so nicely! Rosie's school was so wonderful, and our little simplified life was so cozy and intimate-- just us in our tiny apartment. I wasn't sure what I thought about coming home to a pile of stuff that we don't really need and obligations and connections and responsibilities...
so rather than go straight home and risk dying from shock, we went on a vacation!
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| A brief-- but noble! Stop in the sierras |
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| poor little street urchins... |
The Lawrence Hall of Science: where I wish I lived.
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| It's coming. Any second. I can feeeeel it. |
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| A bunch a bridges |
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| Grandma! And an alluvial flood plain, or somethin'. |
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| Oooooh, I LOVED this. talk about hands-on science. |
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| And --Praise the lord-- Cheeseboard pizza. |
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| And, in some no-name strip mall in a suburb of nowhere, the world's crowdedest, sweatiest, spiciest, most delicious Chinese food on the planet. You know it's good, when I'm the whitest thing in a 3 mile radius. |
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| the damask roses of the world tour... |
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| This was the awesome broken wild animal museum. Those owls, hawks, and eagles? All alive. All somehow defective, but... ALIVE! Awesome, right? |
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| Maile as a red-tailed hawk |
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| Go bears! |
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| Look who we ran in to in the foyer of the Botany building-- Lucy!!! |
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| And a tiny archeopteryx fossil |
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| Ooooh!! the Stamen! |
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| Ooooh, the farmers' market..... |
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| Oooh, the borsht at Sauls... |
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| It left us all a bit... deer in the headlights. |
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