Sunday, May 20, 2007

A Day in the Golden State

Tomorrow evening I’ll be attending a San Francisco Giants baseball game with three of my college roommates. Somehow, we’ve managed to stay close friends for almost 50 years.

When the four of us get together by ourselves like this (sans sane wives), you never quite know what’s going to happen.

We’re going to take the ferry from Oakland across the Bay to the Ferry Building in San Francisco. From there we’ll grab a bus down the Embarcadero to AT&T Park. The after-game ferry, which docks at the park’s water front, will bring us home.

In the old days, a lot could happen – and usually did – on outings like this. Of course now that we’re so much older and more mature, it’ll just be a routine day. Right. At any rate, I’m looking forward to it, but I’ll only be in the Bay Area for about 24 hours.

On another note, my granddaughter Talli reports that she is having an incredibly good time in Japan. Already she’s tasted ethnic foods and been to school with her Asian counter-part. She found out that her name (in Japanese characters) roughly translates to “many beautiful colors.” Not a coincidence, if you know Talli. We’re thrilled that she’s gaining so much from her journey.

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