Presidents Day weekend

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We are nearly 3 months into the sabbatical, which is hard to believe. The four day weekend we have just had was very sociable, with two dinner invitations and an outing to the House of Air trampolining park with friends who each have a son. House of Air is in San Francisco, so the trip there provided beautiful views of the city as we drove over the Bay Bridge. From the bridge the Bay stretched out on either side in a pale blue watery expanse. The city has quite a few shiny skyscrapers towering over rows of wooden double story residences, the latter in different pastel shades. A lot were built in the 20's after the huge earthquake and fire.

The trampoline park was in a converted aircraft hangar in the Presidio, a former army barracks now comprised of parks and usable buildings. Matthew and the boys had a great time bouncing on the patch-work quilt of twenty or so trampolines all joined together, but even more fun playing trampoline dodge ball. Afterwards we had hot chocolate from the comfortingly named 'Warming Hut', within view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

This morning all three of my boys were suffering from muscle aches and struggled to get out of bed. Back to the reality of work and school! As for me, I am off to a fundraising lunch, organized by Faculty wives.