travels in case you're wondering why i've missed so many blog days recently, it's because we were traveling. b went to the uk for nearly three weeks. g went to ymca camp for a week. and the beautiful and talented alisa and i went to mendocino for a couple of days. hardly seems fair. it was pretty. cold. but pretty. we hiked a lot. something the boys don't really like to do. the pacific ocean makes a really good air conditioner. and it was on full blast. the coolest thing was the lighthouse at point arena. i have a print of a painting hanging on my wall called the view from god's window. the view was that amazing. more so than the painting cause the surf broke. anywho. the pygmy forest on the ecological staircase was also pretty cool. it was a lot like a real forest except for scale. i felt like a giant walking through the woods. fee fi fo fum. each stair was uplifted about 100,000 years after the previous higher one. i wondered if they coincided with the ice ages. further research is required. we went right after breakfast. i wasn't very amused by the fat people huffing and puffing up the slight grades whining about having to walk all the way back. they didn't. cause they didn't walk all the way there. so couldn't walk all the way back. the plan was to eat yummy food that the boy's wouldn't touch. we half succeeded. we ate food at places that would have made the boys squirm. the brazilian fish soup was good. lotta thai overtones. the duck was good. i liked the house special sturgeon at cafe beaujolais. but it had a salty gravy-like sauce so alisa panned it. the b&b served an apple tart. also panned by alisa. which was okay. cause the first thing she did when we got home was make them correctly. and man were they good. i love that woman so much.  ¶ 8:00 AM