Old Haunts
On our first Monday in California, Finnur took an early bus up to the city (San Francisco proper – where most of his team is now located) while I drove to Menlo Park to meet a friend for breakfast, with a quick non-stop visit to Stanford because I was early.
Driving on the aptly named Palm Drive towards the main Stanford quad.
A quick and crooked view of the main quad.
I couldn't spot anything different from when I was last at Stanford, but I'm told they've been very busy building an new engineering quad behind my old building... I didn't stop to check it out though.
My breakfast: huge fruit-filled crepe with mystery 'yogurt' on top, with bagel and potato shavings. It was pretty yummy! 🙂
When I returned to home base, the kids were busy playing Geometry Wars on the Xbox. They're such telly-addicts! 🙂
They didn't really want to leave the Xbox, but I somehow got them into the car and drove to 'our' old 'red playground' where we hung out for a good while.
Anna about to roll her eyes at her photographically overexcited mother.
Orange smile.
Kids playing in the sand. We arrived there close to two which is when the nearby school lets out, so there were quite a few kids on the playground. As the afternoon wore on, most of the kids disappeared, so we also took off, and got a little shopping done.
All in all it was a relatively quiet day. We took an extra stroll down memory lane by driving past our old house, and seeing just how huge a couple of the plants we planted out in front have gotten. As we turned the car around in the cul-de-sac Anna pointed at all the houses where she’d know a kid in.