{"id":5357,"date":"2012-05-14T21:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:33:20","slug":"old-haunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/old-haunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Haunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Driving on the aptly named Palm Drive towards the main Stanford quad.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A quick and crooked view of the main quad.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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My breakfast: huge fruit-filled crepe with mystery 'yogurt' on top, with bagel and potato shavings. It was pretty yummy! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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When I returned to home base, the kids were busy playing Geometry Wars on the Xbox. They're such telly-addicts! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anna about to roll her eyes at her photographically overexcited mother.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Orange smile.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

All in all it was a relatively quiet day. \u00a0We 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. \u00a0As we turned the car around in the cul-de-sac Anna pointed at all the houses where she’d know a kid in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Driving on the aptly named Palm Drive towards the main Stanford quad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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