At the end of January our daughter came to visit for three weeks. At the beginning, three weeks sounded like a wonderfully long time, but in the end, time, of course, flew by way too fast. We filled those three short weeks with a lot of fun activities and tried to make the most of the time. Unfortunately, the Geek couldn't take off all of the time, but we still got several weekdays that we could spend together.
Since she still has quite some clothes here and didn't need to bring any, she filled her suitcase with the delicious things that we miss here.
Since she misses it so much in Germany, we spent a lot of time at the ocean, walking along the beach during sunset...
whale watching (unsuccessfully) ...
hiking the headlands ...
spending an incredibly windy day in Point Reyes, looking for elephant seals and their pups ...
and watching more sunsets.
One day she came with me to German School and did a fabulous presentation about Germany for my students. They loved her and we ended up having a pretty lively conversation in German.
We walked around the lake where we discovered American White Pelicans for the first time.
We walked among ancient Redwoods and she tried to hug one...
She spoiled our friends' dogs and the resident cat in our garden; they in return adored her.
We played cards on those rainy afternoons (we didn't have many of those) while drinking feshly pressed blood orange juice (this, of course, is for Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T Tuesday; it feels good to be back!).
And way too soon it was time for her to say goodbye to her parents and California.
There will be more about our time with Kaefer in upcoming posts.
