Memorial Weekend

I don't know why people in the west don't put flowers on graves at Memorial day like they do in the Midwest. Just a difference in regional traditions.... I enjoy it after having been gone for so many years and not doing it. I think I am more aware of it now maybe due to having had more birthdays and also my interest in genealogy. It is just that taking a minute to remember family members and friends.

Anyway, here is what the back of my vehicle looked like when Vivian and Karen left here last Saturday.

 We put flowers on 18 graves this year. This is the 3rd year we have done it and now have the process down pat. I have a list of people to get flowers for, take a marking pen to the store and we write the names on the flowers when we get them.  Then they are sorted in the car depending which cemetery we go to first.

Last year on Memorial weekend,  Vivian and I worked a very long time to clean her mother's tombstone and get the dirt, algae, etc off it.

Above is what the tombstone looked like before we cleaned it. Below is how it still looks this year after we got done cleaning it. We were surprised that it still looked so good this year.

I talked to a company that makes tombstones and he told me what to do and that is what we did and it worked. He said to use Dawn dish soap,  water, scrub with a soft bristle brush,  a really lot of elbow grease and rinse really good with water when done. There are a couple more tombstones that are starting to discolor but decided to wait another year before doing them and do it in the fall when it is cooler.

I'm taking the Quarterly to the printer this morning and then have to get back to getting ready for the class I teach on the 13th. PLUS, I have to prepare for the one I'm doing on June 25th so those are my focus this month! Then I don't have any more classes to teach for the year at this point. I don't mind doing them but it is so much work to do the PowerPoint, research, etc to get ready for them.

A Different Weekend...

I realized this week that I'm am back in the habit of "working" during the week and taking weekends off. That makes no sense as my "work" (genealogy class prep, etc) can be done any day but it is just habit. Right now my volunteer stuff is taking a lot of time but it will significantly drop off at the end of June when all the classes I'm teaching will be over for the year. Oh well.....

On Friday night I went to the Museum at Prairiefire's Neuroscience Happy Hour that is on Fridays, 6-7:30 p.m.. It is an informal presentation by a doctor from St. Luke's Hospital Neuroscience Department. I 'm a member there so get their emails and I ignored the first one a couple of weeks ago about a class on Dementia but decided to go last Friday and am really glad I did. Besides enjoying the free wine and appetizers, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about Time is Brain: Guide to Recognition and Treatment of Strokes. The doctor was the head of their stroke department and knew her stuff. I learned I have a moderate risk for a stroke based on my blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, A-Fib, weight, exercise and family history of stokes. Some of the questions on the risk survey were just yes or no do you have them while other questions for what is my blood pressure, cholesterol, amount of exercise, etc.  I know I have a lot of plaque in the heart arteries but did not know that I also have it in the brain arteries - it it is in one place in the body then it is in other arteries also. I always thought it was  plaque in the heart that broke off and traveled up to the brain. Now I know the plaque is already in the brain and can just break off in the brain and travel to a smaller vein where it causes a blockage. I  learned that 32,000 brain cells die every second during a stroke or 1.9 million die every minute the blockage is there. There is only a 3 hour window for them to give you the pill that may break up a clot from the first onset of a symptom. We hear that our blood pressure should be in the 120/80 range but for someone over 80, it should be under 150/85 - a higher allowable limit that someone younger. She also showed a video of a new procedure where they can go up through an artery in the groin to the brain and pull out a clot.  It was all fascinating!  They are scheduled through August with different topics on the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. I will definitely pay more attention to the emails I get from them on future Happy Hour's at the Museum.

Yesterday I went with a friend to the Johnson County K-State Research and Extension's 2016 Garden Tour. There were 6 homes, all owned by Master Gardner's, and we could wander around their yards and see what they had planted, how the yard was designed, etc. We only went to 4 of the gardens and that took a lot of hours. Of course one garden was my favorite - I would love to have it in a yard. However, I am not willing to spend the amount of them she and her husband (both Master Gardeners) spend each week on their yard. They have lived there for 18 years so it wasn't done overnight. It wasn't just the plants, but she is wonderfully artistic and had so many creative ways to use yard art to add interest in the gardens.

Over the table on the patio, is a chandelier where she replaced the bulbs with little bowls and then planted cascading plants in the bowls. 

This was an automobile wheel that she cleaned up, painted and them put ceramic tile on it and turned it into a planter. It was beautiful. 

Interesting mix of flowers, yard art (sun dial) and shrubs. 

And yes there were lots and lots of flowers. 

So back to "work" tomorrow and working on my next class which is 2 weeks from tomorrow....

Koala Flats and other zoo items

Yes it was pretty cool this morning - 45 degrees when I got up but it was sunny. So I headed out to the zoo after stopping by the Farmer's Market for some more strawberries that were picked yesterday and some bread that was baked last night. I have learned to be at the zoo when it opens and I head straight to an exhibit I really want to see. Most people go through the gate and then meander towards nothing in particular. Even when I go to a zoo in another town, I print out the map ahead of time and know which exhibits I want to see. I know... 8-)

Koala Flats:  Burra and Coedie, are brothers who were born at the San Diego Zoo in Aug 2013. They are being rented out to the KC Zoo for 8 months and will then return San Diego. The 2 flew here on Southwest Airlines accompanied by their San Diego handler while sharing a row of seats.

 Meet Burra. I think they are absolutely adorable! 

Koalas ONLY eat eucalyptus leaves. So....since eucalyptus trees don't grow in the Midwest, the zoo gets 2 shipment a week from San Diego, via Southwest Airlines, of eucalyptus branches. The branches are cut and stuck in 6-8 containers around the enclosure - mostly by their "trees".  According to the zoo docent, the absence of local eucalyptus trees is why we won't ever have a permanent exhibit of koalas at the KC Zoo. 

 Eucalyptus is very low in energy and can be very toxic to most other animals. Koalas rest about 20 hours per day when they are detoxifying the poison in eucalyptus. These guys woke up twice int he 30 minutes I was watching them. Once when the keeper sprayed some disinfectant on the floor prior to washing down the floor and the second time was when she prodded them awake. After a few minutes they went back to sleep. 

One advantage of having a zoo membership, is that I can come as often as I want. I go, see what I want to see that time knowing I will be back again and again and again.....

This "baby" orangutan is 7 years old and usually has his security blanket - a burlap sack. Part of the time he had it completely over his head. 

The little guy and his mommy. Orangutans stay with their mother until they are about 8 years old. Then they will breed the mother again when she has kicked the baby out on his own. 

I am fascinated by jelly fish - they are so graceful in their movements! The little "tails" only come out when they move. 

And of course, I had to get a few flower pictures in while I was there.

I'm not sure what this is but it was bright and colorful.....

And just a plain Shasta daisy with a bug having lunch. 

Even though it was cool, it was a beautiful day and the place was packed when I left at noon.

2 down and 2+ to go

This week I taught 2 classes for the genealogy society that I belong to. On Monday, I taught a 1 hour class in which I compared the 4 most popular genealogy software programs. It has been many, many years since I created a presentation like that and I used to do it routinely when I was working. This was the 2nd in a series of 9 monthly classes we are doing. I'm the coordinator for the series in addition to teaching 2 of the classes. The society has never done anything like this before and we had no idea how many people, if any, would come. Last month we had 34 people and this time we had 46. I already have 26 registered for next month! We ask the attendees to do an evaluation on the class when it is over and as a speaker, I got a 4.82 out of 5. Of course, I would have liked to have a 5 but that is unheard of so was happy with what I got. I'm teaching the class next month and then I am done  teaching - others are teaching the rest of them. Next month my topic is "Timelines" , which if you aren't into genealogy the subject won't mean anything, Yesterday I did a 45 min class on building a Website - very simple for the society writing group. No evaluation on that one.....  Plus I have to get the June Quarterly done!!!!!  My desk is always a mess but I know what is in which stacks. 8-)  However, I left my big desk in Tucson and am using Larry's much smaller desk which doesn't have as much room on it for stacks. Hence, there are stacks of folders, notebook and papers on the floor around me...... I need to get started soon on the 2nd class I am teaching next month which is on "Writing YOUR Life Story".  Can't wait until July 1st when my classes are all done and I have some play time.

Shingles update: After 3 very long months, it is mostly gone. I still have one place on my arm will randomly feel like someone drove a hot knife into it and after a few minutes the pain is gone. It was broke out at  one time in that spot but not any more. I keep hearing about people who had after-effects for months and sometimes even years. At least the back isn't bothering me any more.

Koalas:  I read yesterday that the 2 koalas have arrived at the zoo here from San Diego and are on exhibit. I immediately looked at the weather to pick a good day to go and there is nothing but cold weather for the next few days. May go anyway....  They are only here for a few months and then go back home. Hopefully, we will get a permanent pair. I think they are so, so adorable! Stay tuned....

January trip:  While Nancy was here, we talked about taking a trip in January to LA and asking Jane to go with us which she has agreed to do. I will meet them there.  Nancy and I are on a mission to visit as many of the Presidential Libraries as we want to knowing we probably won't get to all 13 of them. Some of them don't interest us... In LA we will visit the Regan and Nixon libraries. I can't believe I lived there for 7 years and never went to visit them but those years were all about work. I have already visited the Kennedy, Truman, Clinton, Johnson and Eisenhower. The Hoover library in Iowa and the Carter library are also on our lists for sometime in the future. To me they are fascinating and I have learned so much about being a president and the person - not just what we see on TV.

Later....

Art and flowrs

We are TIRED!  I tell myself it's because I have had another birthday since the last trip.....

We got back from Abilene around noon yesterday. After unpacking, we went and had lunch and then went out to the Arboretum just to go for a walk. It was so nice out there and the flowers were beautiful.

This morning we went down to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to see the "Reflecting Class in the Age of Rembrandt & Vermeer" exhibit. The exhibit was good but we both expected more paintings by Rembrandt & Vermeer. There was only 2 by Rembrandt and 1 by Vermeer. It was more about the the 17th century Dutch painters depicting the class levels of the Dutch people.

This painting by Paulus Moreelse was probably my favorite. I am just in awe of the finite detail (below picture) of the painting in the lace, her jewelry and all the pearls she is wearing. It looks more like a photograph than a painting.

This Vermeer, titled "A Lady Writing" is good but didn't do much for me. 

After lunch in the courtyard cafe, we went over to Kauffman Gardens to check out the early summer plantings which were beautiful. As many times as I have been to the Gardens since I moved here, they are always different. 

Even these ornamental onion plants are really pretty. 

Nancy leaves tomorrow and the house will seem very empty....

Abilene, Kansas

This morning we drove over to Abilene which is about 2.5 hours west of KC. Nancy and I are working out way down the list to visit all 13 of the Presidential Libraries so wanted to visit the Eisenhower Museum and Library here in Abilene. This is the fifth presidential library that I have been to. We were interested in learning more about the Eisenhower White House years but most of the museum is devoted to his military life which was a disappointment for us but we did learn a lot we didn't know.

Ike and Mamie are buried here in the Meditation Chapel. Behind the marble wall is a small chapel.

Ike's family moved into this house when he was a small boy and he lived in this house until he was 18 and left for West Point. The house sits on it's original site and is now on of the Museum grounds. Originally it was about 800 sq ft and they raised 6 boys in it. It was added on after the kids all left home and is now about 1100 sq ft. The original furnishings are still in the house.

I have not thought about the 50's bomb shelters in years! This replica of an bomb shelter built to the government's specification pamphlet is shown above. The shelter required 6" x 6" wood posts, 1,776 bricks and a 24" x 24" window. Inside, a well stocked shelter would include a Geiger counter, snakebite kit, a chemical toilet, 2 gallons of toilet chemical and an air pump for mattresses.

The marble in the library lobby was beautiful and this picture does not do it justice! The marble on the walls is book-matched Larado Chiaro marble from Italy. The took one big slap, but it and them matched the pieces back together to make it look like a continuous design. The dark marble in the floor is from France and the light color marble in the floor is from St. Genevieve, Missouri along the Mississippi. It was really beautiful.....

We head back home tomorrow and then hit the art museum in KC on Friday. Nancy goes home on Saturday.

Pony Express and Walter Cronkite

I was just too tired last night to do the blog so will catch up today.... We headed back home in the morning yesterday from Omaha and guess what the weather was? If you said "cold, windy and rainy" you were correct.  We ran out of the rain after an hour and then it was periodic light showers the rest of the way home. St Joseph is 1 hour from my apartment so we stopped there to visit the Pony Express Museum and the Walter Cronkite Memorial.

Pony Express Museum: Of course I have heard about the Pony Express all of my life, studied it in school but didn't really remember a lot of the details. The museum was small but quite interesting and refreshed what I was taught in school many, many years ago.

This is the restored building that the first Pony Express rider left from heading west on April 3, 1860. A rider would change horses every 10-15 miles and  there would be a rider change every 75-100 miles. There was 190 stops along the route between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, Ca. The average one-way trip took 10 days. I was surprised to learn that the Pony Express only lasted about a year and was replaced with the telegraph.

A replica of the first rider leaving the station. When he rode off, a canon was fired so the ferry boat captain could be waiting at the dock down on the Missouri river which was a short distance away. The ferry would take him across the river and then the train went through Kansas a ways and then went up into Nebraska, northern Wyoming and onto to Salt Lake City before going across Nevada to Sacramento. I was surprised that the route didn't just go straight across Kansas.

Walter Cronkite Memorial: This memorial is located on the campus of Missouri Western State University in St Joseph. I have so many memories of watching Walter Cronkite tell me what was happening in the world. The most memorable are when Kennedy was shot and then when Armstrong Landed on the moon.

This is  a display that is perhaps 30 feet high with his most memorable newscast segments on it. Near by is an interactive display where you can select on of these segments and watch it on a 36" TV screen. Yes, we watched a few of them... 8-)

The other really interesting thing was a replica of his news room in New York City that he broadcast the evening news from.  It was not only a studio but also a working newsroom.

Newscaster Nancy is ready to do the evening news at Cronkite's desk as it was when he set there. On his right were several teletype machines to feed breaking news. The machines were in soundproof cabinets so the sound wouldn't be heard on the air. The map behind her is the one that was behind him on the news. Lots of memories at this museum.....

Tomorrow will be another day around  town here before we head off to Abilene, KS on Wednesday for the Eisenhower Presidential Library.

Warren Buffett and the Stockholder's Meeting

This was a big day for me in that I checked an off item that was on mine and Larry's Bucket List. Larry LOVED Warren Buffet and in time he has become a favorite of mine. He is able to explain stock stuff in easy to understand words. He is the 3rd richest man in the world yet lives here in Omaha, Nebraska in a house he paid $31,500 for in 1958 on an ordinary street of Midwest houses. Warren is 86 years old and his Charlie Munger, his partner, is 92 years old.

Nancy and I got up at 5 a.m. today and caught a 5:45 shuttle. It was cold, windy and pouring down rain. There is only one covered walkway from the street to the arena and that is where the shuttle dropped us off so we didn't have to stand out in the rain although it was blowing under the awning at time. There were several other entrances where people were standing outside in the rain. The doors were supposed to open at 7 but opened at 6:30 so we could get in out of the rain. Next came security and then a long walk to the arena. By the time we got into the arena, at least 1/3 of the 20,000 seats were already taken but we lucked out and snagged 2 good seats by an aisle. We got out seats, left our jackets to hold them and went in search of food - soda, packaged pastry, orange juice, coffee and water - not much but it worked.

The pic above shows the stage and the large monitors so we could see them. Bill Gates and his wife, good friends of Buffet, were also there. This is the first time that the meeting was streamed on Yahoo Finance - before it was only heard in the arena. They showed a movie at 8:30 that was various commercials for some of the companies BH owns and some short funny movies of Warren and Charlie. At 9:30 Warren and Charlie started the Q&A. That went on for 7 hours with an hour break for lunch. They did not know what the questions would be in advance. Questions ranged from really technical stock questions that I didn't have a clue what they were talking about to how could they be such a big shareholder of Coke when all that sugar is so bad for you? Warren's answer to that was that he consumes about 600 calories a day in his Cokes and at his age is going to do what brings pleasure to him and it is up to people to make decisions on what they want to do. Besides the coke on the table for them, there was a big box of See's Peanut Brittle and Fudge on the table between them that they ate on.

This is from Yahoo Financial with Warren on the left and Charlie on the right. You can see the candy is between them.

We left at noon and caught the shuttle back to the hotel. We had had enough of crowds, etc. I heard there was around 20,000 people there - about 1/2 of last year but then last year was the 50th Anniversary of the meetings. Both Nancy and I were amazed at how many young people were there - in their 20's and they were totally absorbed in what he was saying. There were people there from all over the world!. Fun day and I'm glad I did it but doubt if I will do it again. Been there, done that.... 8-)

Since the weather continues to be not tourist friendly, Nancy and I are heading back home tomorrow instead of on Monday. The zoo is the only thing we will miss.

Botanical Gardens and Shopping

Another cold, windy, cloudy day - not the weather we  hoped for! This morning we went to the Lauritzen Gardens which is Omaha's botanical gardens. The garden was started in 1982 and today covers over 100 acres with a new, very large conservatory. There were a lot of things inside so we didn't have to walk to much outside in the cold wind. 

There were several tulip beds that were beautiful. The tulips are such a beautiful flower and their life is so short when in bloom. 

More than 30 brilliantly-colored glass sculptures, created and curated for Lauritzen Gardens by nationally-recognized kiln-formed glass artist Craig Mitchell Smith punctuate the landscapes of the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory and the floral display hall. His unique and unparalleled technique of cutting colorful sheets of glass in the shapes of brush strokes and using his kiln as a canvas is similar to the way a painter works with paint. He lays out shards of glass like paint on a canvas and fires these pieces until they melt and fuse into a beautiful form. Smith evaluates every flat flower, petal by petal, and adapts the glass to its finished three-dimensional shape. ABOVE is the back of some sunflowers.

The front of one of the glass sunflowers. 

Another one of the glass flowers. His technique is definitely different from glass I have seen in other exhibits. 

This water lily is real.  

We had lunch at the gardens in a really nice little cafe and then headed for the Century-Link Arena for the Berkshire-Hathaway Exhibit event. It is basically a huge trade show make up of companies that is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. It was just overwhelming with so much to see and so many people! 

Besides getting our picture taken, I ended up with 2 big shopping bags of stuff. There was stuff from Fruit-of-the-Loom, a rubber ducky of Warren Buffet holding a gecko, candy from See's, some stuff from Pampered Chef, gardening gloves from Wells Lamont, a Dilly Bar from Dairy Queen and a fresh water pearl necklace from Borsheim's Jewelry Store, Prices were really reduced on some items. We saw stuff from BNSF railroad, Justin Boots, and the aisles went on and on. We could have bought casual shoes or signed up to lease a jet plane. See's had 16 cash registers to handle the crowds as did Fruit-of-the Loom. The event was wonderfully organized and smooth running. However, our brains were on overload after 2.5 hours and we staggered out with our bags. 

In the morning, we catch a shuttle at 6 a.m. which takes us to the arena where we will stand outside in line until the doors open at 7 a.m. You have to be there by 4 a.m. if you drive to get a parking space. There is a 100% chance of rain in the morning but we have our umbrellas and ponchos ready. We only plan on staying about half a day - not the whole day. We skipped a cocktail reception tonight at the jewelry store and will probably skip the BBQ at Nebraska Furniture Mart tomorrow night. So far it has met or exceeded our expectations. 

Cathedral, Wagon Train and Train Station

We had planned on going to the zoo today but a little weather got in the way. It was 46 degrees this morning with a wind chill of 41 when we left the hotel about 10 a.m. this morning.  Last night we had decided to do the cathedral first and then the zoo so it could warm up a bit. The warming up didn't happen... We decided it wasn't worth freezing to see animals we have already seen so skipped the zoo. Oh well...another day in the future when it is warm. 

Construction on Saint Cecilia Cathedral began in 1905. It was built in the Spanish Renaissance Revival architectural style atop the highest hill in Omaha. It was cloudy all day so no blue skies in the background....

This is inside the church looking towards the alter. It is a beautiful building although not as grand as some I have seen. The ceiling was especially beautiful and different. 

First National Sculpture Parks in downtown Omaha is just amazing! Beginning around 2000, five city blocks were transformed into a green urban sculpture park depicting a moment in the rich history of Omaha, Nebraska and creating a unique setting in the downtown area for one of the largest installations of bronze and stainless steel works of art in the country and in the world.

Beginning at 14th and Capitol Streets, a wagon train leaves Omaha and proceeds along a dry creek bed (above). There are 4 wagons in the train complete with 1 1/4 size scale wagons, oxen, horses, dogs, men, women and children. The statues are all bronze and steel. The train disturbs a nearby group of bison (not pictured), causing them to stampede down 15th Street onto Dodge, where they flush a flock of geese from a nearby pond (below). There are 50 geese in the fountain and on surrounding light poles. 

The geese take flight in and around the intersection of 16th and Dodge Streets, and the sculpture narrative concludes with these majestic Canada Geese flying into and through the First National Tower Winter Garden Atrium. These parks are just incredible and I have never seen anything like them! I have seen the bronze statues in other places but not something that tells a story and continues on for several blocks. 

Construction on Union Station commenced July 29, 1929. The station opened to great fanfare on January 15, 1931 and quickly became one of the busiest stations in the nation. In its heyday, 64 passenger trains and some 10,000 passengers utilized the facility every day. The last passenger train departed Union Station in 1971 and the station closed its doors. Union Station given to the city of Omaha. In 1975, Union Station reopened as the Western Heritage Museum displaying small regional history exhibits and private collections. The $22 million restoration of Union Station began in 1995 and required the Museum to be closed for a period of six months. In 1996 the Western Heritage Museum is opened and re-named the Durham Western Heritage museum. Other than special exhibits, the museum covers the beginning and continued history of Omaha. 

Through the Grand Hall of the Union Station are these life size bronze statues depicting what went on when the station was in full use as a train station. They are wonderful!

Part of the Grand Hall with the original soda fountain that is still operational and serves excellent ice cream... 8-) 

Nancy and I ate at the restaurant here in the hotel tonight and went for a walk through the atrium area after dinner. A local school that teaches Japanese flower arranging was setting up their annual show.  They do it the weekend of the Berkshire Hathaway so guest staying at the hotel can enjoy it. Some of the arrangements were magnificent!  Below is one of my favorites. 

Tomorrow we are off to the botanical gardens in the morning. There is an indoor conservatory so we should be o.k. even if it is cold again. In the afternoon we are going to venture into the B-H exhibit hall and see what all we can find to buy and support my Berkshire Hathaway stock. There was an article about it in the paper this morning and it said that See's Candy will have 16 cash registers there and all open to handle purchases. Peanut Brittle is their biggest seller because that and a coke is what Warren Buffet munches on during the day-long press conference. 

Omaha

Nancy and I first talked about coming to Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 3 years ago. Then last year she got sick and couldn't come. But this year we made it so can check it off our Bucket List. We drove up today from KC today and I was surprised that it was an easy 3 hour drive.  I guess I thought it would be farther away. We were concerned about driving in the rain but it only rained lightly for maybe 15 miles.

Hotels up here sell out during the weekend of the annual meeting. I made our hotel reservation last June with a rate of $90/night.  Today our rooms are going for $300/night and have been at that rate for about 6 months. Crazy!  Last there there was around 40,000 people here for the meeting.

Nancy has more than had her fill of Midwest spring storms and has informed me that no more spring trips to the midwest for her. We had severe thunderstorms in KC last night - high wind, really heavy rain and some hail. At one point it was raining so hard and the wind blowing so hard that we  couldn't see across the street from my apartment. When the 2nd storm moved in about an hour later, my windows in the apartment leaked so we were putting towels on the window sills to keep if off the floor. So not much sleep..... However, today was the ultimate....  After we got to Omaha, we went to Borsheims Jewelry store, a Berkshire Hathaway holding. The store is really large and beautiful. We were about ready to leave when my phone beeped and I saw we were in a tornado warning so needed to take cover. The store employees came through the store and herded us to one end of the building which turned out to actually be underground. They locked the front doors so we couldn't leave and the security guards went on high alert. They turned the TV on and we watched the weather man talking about a tornado that had touched down about 1 1/2 miles from us. It was a small one that kept dropping down and going back up.

Here is the weather man pointing out the funnel that had just gone back up in the cloud. This was certainly not on our list of things to do while up here!  I was about 1/2 hour before the all clear was sounded and we could go back to the main part of the store. Then we had to wait another 15 min or so before the rain let up enough that we could get to the car.

We had dinner tonight at Goats Steakhouse. It has been in business since 1944 - a year before I was born. The steaks were wonderful! Besides the great steaks, it is a  place where Warren Buffett likes to to eat at and entertain. The manager told us that they will sell about 1,000 t-bone steaks this week to Asian visitors who want to eat what Warren eats. There was a young Chinese girl there with her cell phone and selfie stick making a documentary about the restaurant. She was filming everything on her cell phone and doing a commentary as she was filing. She even went into the kitchen to film them cooking the steaks. Interesting!

Tomorrow is the zoo. We are not thrilled about the temperature only getting up to around 60 degrees tomorrow but is is the only day that rain isn't forecast. We'll do museums, etc on the rainy days and Sat is the annual meeting. Going back home on Monday.