Lucas has a pizza party

Lucas has a pizza party and invites 3 boys from Germany along with girls from Korea, Italy and oh yes ... Topeka too. 

Middle Eastern with Mark and Kris

Washburn University sponsored an evening of authentic Middle Eastern food, folk dancing and culture focusing on Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.  It was interesting.  While there, we saw dear friends Mark and Kris and convinced them to come over.  (It has now been over 20 years since they got married in our living room on November 1, 1988.) 

Persian New Year

Our friend Bobby just might be the quintessential bachelor.  He lives alone with a pool table in the living room, a Ducati in the family room and a Lotus in the garage.  We joined him last night for a feast celebrating the Persian New Year (or NoRooz) which begins on the first day of Spring.  The year is now 2568.

  

 

Lucas moves in

The same day that SRC and JQ left for Hawaii via California, Lucas moved in.  An exchange student from Brazil, Lucas has only 2 more months at Topeka High School.  When his host family needed to move, we got Lucas.  We immediately introduced him to peaches and ice cream.

Juan, Jake, SRC and Italian Dinner

Week in review: George's cousin Juan visits us for his spring break from the University of Richmond.  Jake and SRC visit on their way to Hawaii.  Helen and I enjoy an excellent multi-course Italian feast at the Mullican's.

 

 

 

Diorama Book Party

Last Saturday night we attended a Diorama Book Party.  Huh?  Well, you select a book, build a 3 dimensional model describing your book and build it inside a shoe box.  While many people built elaborate dioramas, some complete with electric lights and remote controls, we didn't.  HRC flattened an inflatable globe for The World is Flat while I pasted a bunch of photographs onto an old Amazon box for The Sex Lives of Cannibals.

Ours sucked.  Even so, it was fun.  In fact, when the prizes were handed out, one of us won a Blue Ribbon for the impromptu category of Most Provocative Title.

Mac Man

My home PC died in late January.  With SRC's enthusiastic encouragement, and with JQ's good-natured willingness to teach this old dog a new trick, one week ago I bought this MacBook Pro:

One week later, Mac and I are still adjusting.  They say it takes 2 weeks.  My current observations are that the Mac is beautifully engineered and that I am an old dog.

Elaine and Mona visit

In the early 1980's, our friend Elaine moved out of state.  Fortunately, she stayed in touch with our mutual friend, Mona.  Last week, and 28 years later, Mona brought Elaine for a visit.  We laughed, watched old home movies ...

and then laughed some more.  While Helen may have maintained her dignity and poise ...

I didn't ...

It was fun.  Yea for old friends!

48 hours in DC

Since we had not yet seen SRC's apartment, we flew to Washington DC for 48 hours for a quick visit. Here is an exterior shot of her apartment building near DuPont Circle:

That night, we walked to the Adams Morgan District for an interesting quasi-dinner at the Ghana Cafe.Unfortunately, JQ had to leave the next day. SRC helped him pack ...

and we all briefly visited the Washington National Cathedral ...before taking JQ to the airport. The next morning we had a lazy breakfast ... before returning home. It was fun.

George buys a car

George saves his money and buys a car from a buddy in Lawrence. Yeah George!