Episode CI: California There We Came
As per tradition, I traveled back home to California over the Christmas/New Year holidays. This year I brought along my wife as well- indeed, thanks to the recent marriages in the family, our household was 33% larger than it usually is at this time of year. This was the first Christmas that Meg and I spent Christmas or New Year's together, and let me say that it was a lovely, lovely thing to do. I recommend it. At Grandma Shearer's Christmas Celebration we introduced a brand new tradition of a walk around the block (with frisbees in tow, of course.) A pretty nice tradition for a locale where Christmas Day was a refreshing sunny-with-a-high-of-seventy-five. For Brian's birthday the family adventured on over to a giant complex full of trampoline-based excitement. Jumping on trampolines for an hour straight the day after playing a few hours of basketball makes for an interesting feeling in the legs, let me tell you. Some of the family also ...