Vacation in Northern California

What a busy week!

First we went to San Francisco--we wandered around Fisherman's Wharf, Ghiradelli Square, and all the way to the Golden Gate bridge. Click here for some highlights. Or just enjoy resting your feet and seeing the Golden Gate in the background. (Sara must be staring off at a distant Alcatraz.)

Then we went hiking in Oakland, at a now-collapsed volcano and in some redwood forest. Click here for highlights. Or just appreciate this photo here--Sara at the top of a quarry in the volcanic preserve:




On day 3, Friday, it was time to head down to Sunnyvale for wedding weekend. (The purpose of our trip--to celebrate Beth and Evan's wedding!) We stopped at Quarry Lakes along the way. It was a gorgeous, if hot, day. We both came back with a bit of a tan. Highlights here, or just enjoy this one lake photo:

On Sunday, Beth married Evan! It was a beautiful day, and a beautiful wedding, all in Beth's grandparent's backyard! Click here for some highlights, or just enjoy her happy, loving gaze:

Finally, we drove up north to see wine country. And the Jelly Belly factory. Click here for some highlights. Or just enjoy Sara inspecting the grapes for firmness.


Finally...a HUGE thank you to Garrett and Elke Barter for being such amazing and giving hosts to us this weekend, allowing us to use their guest room, their car, Penny (their GPS), their guidebooks, and their food. You guys rock!

Ultrasound @ 20 weeks

Dlet shows off swimming ability!



And here we see a nice footplant (5 toes?), a prominent nose, and both a left and right brain hemisphere!

In a few more months, we hope to be able to share color pictures :)

Auntie's 60th!

We went to W. Hartford this past weekend to celebrate Aunt Helen's 60th birthday.
In addition to Mom, Jason, Naomi, Lauren, Jerald, Jono, Seth, Becca, and Justin, we spent the whole weekend with:


Shalom, Aviva, Rena, Elliot, Avi, Yitzi, Uncle Les, Ella, Nachi, Aunt Helen, Tzipora, Gram, Elan, Mo, Daniel, Meira, and Chani! It was good to gather the clan from Boston to Baltimore and hang out all 28 of us. It doesn't happen often enough. Thanks for being born, Auntie!

Of course, with that many kids (and adults), the party wasn't the orderly, calm type as you might think from the above picture. Most of the time things were moving so fast the pictures came out blurry! Here's a more representative shot:



For more pictures, see here