Day: May 15, 2013

It does not get much better than this.  The 2013 California Graduate School Tour^TM has proceeded from San Diego to Manhattan Beach, California and Beverly Hills.  Tomorrow Kelly has two interviews and Christian has one interview at UCLA.  On Friday, they head north to Mountain Ranch, UC Davis, and Stanford for fellowship with friends and graduate school interviews.  I am VERY sad I can not be with them, but someone needs to keep the homefires burning.

This is the phase one of summer travels.  The 2013 Texas, Arizona, and Washington Graduate School Tour^TM will commence in early August.  We are not sure whether the kids will go alone, but that is our hope.  It will be VERY nice to have Lorena with me for awhile rather than driving a rental car around because the kids are still too young to do it on their own.

Actually, these are very exciting times.  We are very thankful to our dear pharmacist friends as well as cousins Jim and Karin for their kindness and hospitlality.

Day 631 of 1000

Lorena and the kids are going to stay with a couple of cousins in the LA area over the next couple of days so they can visit and interview some professors about graduate school at UCLA.  My cousins (a cousin on my Dad’s side of the family married a very distant cousin on my Mom’s side of the family) own a business called the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute that teaches over 20 languages.  It turns out that the language school hosted Giada for the filming of one of her cooking shows.  Lorena and Kelly are HUGE Giada fans ever since they met her at Barnes and Noble a while back.  They cook from her books whenever they get the chance.  They are going to be very envious and want to hear the whole story.