Christmas morning Alan and I got up early and did a quick walk -- still got caught in the first drizzle of the next storm system -- but were home in time to enjoy the tree and gift giving. We surprised Bryan with a bit of local "Giants World Series Sway" -- a T shirt with a Day of the Dead motif to honor that Alan and I were in Mexico for the World Series. It is a great shirt and Bryan actually wears it!! (He has made it clear that we need no longer buy him clothes....so there was some trepidation that this would merely be a closet stuffer....)
We also had a family day at the Oakland Museum's showing of a PIXAR exhibit. The exhibit has been a traveling show for 5 years but is closing in January 2011. It was recently updated to include 25 years of animation so it included films through Toy Story 3. The exhibit featured the sketches, drawings, models, color paintings, and color schematic work for all the PIXAR movies. The emphasis was on showing the work of the artists behind the animation behind the computers. Walking through the exhibit was like revisiting so many wonderful PIXAR movies -- what was your favorite PIXAR movie? From the museum we went out for Ethiopian food; this is one of those east bay treats for the Wulzen family.
David arrives on January 2 -- just in time to spend a day with Bryan before he returns to UC Davis for winter quarter. David is on a business trip so the timing really worked out great for any overlap at all.
We plan to leave for Mexico on January 4...but that sounds like a post for the New Year!
Happy New Year to you and Alan, and David and Bryan... Now that you are retired you can start a new adventure of having the time to enjoy it all...
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your blog entry about the walk along the Lagunitas Creek -- yeah, the Coho Salmon are gettig really scarce -- I didn't see a single one last year, but I did see "hatch" later in the year...
Oh, by the way, the Lagunitas Creek and I are really good friends -- I go out there a lot to shoot colorful ripples and reflections... I've had encounters with River Otters out there recently -- I wrote about it on my blog the other day...
Anyway, tell Alan hello -- and god -- he still looks really young in that photo of him... Bryan sure has the same hair as Alan, doesn't he?
Best regards and have a great 2011,
Don and Kitty