Okay, I'm a little wierd..

Anyone traveling to Asia should come home with pictures. Mine just happen to be of bakeries....

I stood in rapt fascination watching this young baker in Tokyo as he made baguettes so naturally I had to buy one and see if it tasted as good as it looked.

WOW. I went back and bought several more...

Then there was the Boulangerie in Hong Kong...

I gotta go order another hundred pounds of flour....

Why God Created California

So people like me don't have to live in places like Arkansas. I like to see what I breathe, not see my breath. Twenty freaking degrees with 42% humidity is not where I long to stay. Good thing I leave Wal-Mart-Ville on Friday and return to loved ones and civilization.

I wonder what color the walls will be when I get home?

No... Really???

It sure as $%#@ looked easier on HGTV was the direct quote. And not mine either.

I hate cable TV. I'm gonna pull the plug on it one of these days....

Getting Closer to Christmas

With only a week to go the final plans have been submitted. Now I just have to get eveything done before the deadline...

The Griswold's Are Home Again...

I read recently in someone elses blog that having a little one makes it so you can not help but enjoy the Holiday Season. I guess that is true. What we failed to grasp is that baby can be a 19 year old one. My Baby and I spent the best part of the day getting the Christmas lights hooked up. Yea, Mayor, you're right... It's good to have a baby at home. It will be even better when all the "kids" are together again...

Mama's Got a Brand New Tattoo

Who would have thought that after threatening The Girls if they ever got a Tattoo she would take it off with a belt sander, my Sweetheart would get one. No, I had not filled her with Singapore Slings beforehand either, although we did visit Raffles Hotel the other day. For some reason I couldn't get her into the Long Bar...

We have really enjoyed this trip, even if we got to spend an unplanned night in Bangkok. Yesterday we took a walking tour of "Little India", that's where the tattoo came from. Yes, kids, it's just Henna.

Today I didn't have to work a normal schedule so we had time to go into Malaysia and visit some Batik fabric shops.

Don't ask how much fabric we are bringing home...

One of those things

I always wanted to do was get inside a Concorde. Today I made that happen, even if it was tied to the ground likely never to move again.

What a fantastic hunk of metal. I'm in Seattle for a screening and had some time to kill so I spent a thoroughly enchanting couple of hours at the The Museum of Flight. I highly recommend the place if you're ever in Seattle and have time to spend. Both the pilot and the historian in me had a grand time in the original Air Force One, the old 707 model, as well. To close your eyes and let the history seep into you as imagine the people it carried and the places it went.

And the WWII aircraft... To listen to a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 wind up... Okay only a pilot or a mechanic would love that.

To think we went from this DC-3 to the supersonic Concorde in a generation.....