As those of you on Facebook know, Sunday began with Galen baking cream puffs! They were delicious. Unfortunately we ran out of whipped cream so I volunteered to leg it up to Trader Joe's to get a fresh supply. When the cashier thought I needed it for early morning coffee, I proudly explained that my son was baking cream puffs for the family.
I polished off several of these as I was finishing up Christopher Moore's
Bloodsucking Fiends the initial volume in his vampire trilogy. At Sean's urging, I have discovered his work and have been enjoying it immensely. In discussing all this with Galen, I had said that I need to get to Barnes & Noble to get the second volume,
You Suck: A Love Story. He suggested that I use his Kobo reader to borrow it from the Monroe County Library System back home. I could then send the reader back to him. I check the MCLS resources and the book is available for e-borrowing. I have downloaded to my laptop and will transfer to the Kobo today and start reading. This will be a good test for me of an e-reader. I probably wouldn't go with Kobo but the Color Nook looks promising. I just checked and think it will support my Rhapsody membership. I know that Meg just got a Color Nook and look forward to learning of her experience with it. With the android 2.2 upgrade, it is looking like a really good buy.
After breakfast, Galen got his second recumbent bike set up for me and I gave it a try. Once I got it going, it wasn't bad but clearly I would need more experience before I would bike with him to work along the Pacific Coast Highway. So on Monday afternoon we are going to some biking on some side streets and trails where the worst that I can do is run into something rather than run the risk of something running into me. I believe him when he tells me that it takes about 500 hours before you get really comfortable on one of these in traffic.
After a quick lunch, Galen and I took the three youngest to a program run by the anthropology department at Cal State-Fullerton at the Fullerton Arboretum which is on the campus. They got to experience presentations about the life of native peoples in this area, the Chumash: arts, crafts, games, and canoe building. They also were able to participate in a "dig" which they seemed to really enjoy. Graduate anthropology students were assisting as well undergraduates from the general education anthropology course. Toward the end, Galen noticed that the undergraduates were all reading different MLB caps. I noticed a young woman with a Royals cap. turned out that her family was from the Kansas City area and she was a Royals fan. We had a nice conversation. After witnessing the canoe launch, we drove home. Robert, by the way, had spent the day at Knott's Berry Farm with a friend.
After a brief recovery at home, we went out to dinner at Don Ramon's, a Mexican restaurant nearby. That's where we learned about the death of Osama bin Laden actually via a phone call from Robert who told us it was on CNN. This seemed strange to his parents until we realized that he had not returned home but to his friends house where he was informed by his parents. Robert is not that 14-year-old who comes home and immediately checks CNN for his news update.
We returned home to watch more coverage on CNN. This night I was the last one to go to bed. Quite a day!
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My fourth day was Monday and everybody got back to their normal routines: school and work. Everyone except Robert who developed a nasty little cold over the weekend and stayed home. True he was not sick enough that he was unable to practice his guitar but sick nonetheless.
