Northern California - August 12, 2017

Saturday 8/12

We leave! Sometime before 5AM, we piled into a car that drove us to JFK. No problems getting on board. David upgraded to first class, so he had a great flight. Noah read Mockingjay and played Plague on his Kindle. Evan read the 10th Wings of Fire book. I read Fun Home and crammed guidebooks.

We arrived late to SFO, got our bags and our rental car and set off to meet Gina at a Mexican place on the way to Benicia. Definitely authentic, as a mariachi band was having its lunch break there.




Then off to Benicia to see Gina's newly remodeled house.





We didn't do much that afternoon, since we were so tired from the flight. The kids played chess. Gina made us Turkish chicken for dinner, and we ate outside in the cool, dry air.

Evan slept on the couch, having rejected sharing an air mattress in the office with Noah, for the usual reasons (his kicking, yelling random things at night, etc.) David and I were in the guest room. We slept great - windows open, temps in the 50s, ahhhhh...





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