Weekend

__carina__ visiting from Germany. Chatting over humus and pitas at my kitchen table...then over to the internet where she showed me pics of the places she just traveled to...the Amber Room of Pushkin Palace in Russia....and a great site with floorplan maps and a virtual tour of The Hermitage. (Course I love the floorplans and navigating).The opulence is just surreal. She says every bit of it looks brand new...no feeling of 'history' that we're used to..no antiqued elements...all kept as if then Is now...sparkling.
Jeff and Leslie arrive (Bunny and Ladybug) and we all go back to chatting round snacks at the table.
sendao joins us (waah, he's moving back to Oregon) and B comes home and it's 'complete'. Hot pretzels, grapes, chocolate, cookies, wine, grape tomatoes, vegetarian sloppy joe for pita dippings...we gorge and yap and gorge and yap.
Then we run off to the big snowy hill ( read more )