Our Trip to California – Part 1

On September 16 we flew to California to visit Wendy and family and to hold our new grandson August for the first time. We had to drive to Des Moines to catch the plane because the air fares out of Cedar Rapids were so high. We didn’t fly out till about noon, so we didn’t have to leave too early in the morning. We had two pretty good flights that weren’t as grueling as they sometimes are. When we got to San Francisco we took the tram from the arrival concourse to the car rental building. I had run out maps to get from the airport to Wendy’s so the whole process wasn’t too hard. We did almost take a couple of wrong turns just as we were leaving the airport, but we caught ourselves in time and got on the right path.

We drove right to Wendy’s house and honked as we pulled up in our rental van. The whole family came out to greet us and we finally got to get our hands on August.

After our initial hugs and kisses I called Wyatt over because we had an important ceremony to perform. With his help we officially welcomed August to the family with a celebratory Dutch Rub.

Here are a couple of pictures of our new one that Wendy was kind enough to give me.

If we didn’t want Wyatt to feel left out with all the attention we were giving Augie. We brought him a couple of presents, actually we shipped them ahead. One was a remote control Wall-E robot and the other was a robot sticker book. Both were great hits and he played with them for hours.

Lemur is in the picture because I always have Wyatt go and get him when I arrive. I normally put him on my head like a coonskin cap. Wyatt was having Wall-E wear him the same way I do but in this picture he was off for a minute and I selected this picture so you could see Wall-E better.

Wyatt loved playing with his sticker book. One funny thing, in this picture you can see Wyatt wearing a T-shirt that sports a pirate ship. As fate would have it, it was “National Talk like a Pirate Day”. As soon as Wyatt found that out he changed his shirt and couldn’t be persuaded to put the pirate one back on for anything. Aarrrrgh!

More coming soon….