A drizzly morning and another muffin for breakfast.

We were off on the 5 line again to Golden Gate Park and the S.F. Academy of Science. Highlights were the planetarium show on earthquakes and the rain forest dome where one wanders around with free flying butterflies. At the bottom of the dome was an aquarium featuring sea life of the Amazon and S.F. Bay area.

In the evening we rented a car to pick up our son at his office in Burlingame. From there, we drove to Woodside to meet Marcel Becker, our German exchange student from 1995. We ate at Buck’s of Woodside and eccentric restaurant decorated with some of the oddest memorabilia that could be seen anywhere.

Nicholas and Marcel are both techies. Nicholas visited Marcel in Hamburg about 8 years ago. Since then, Marcel married, moved with his wife to Virginia and then California, bought a house and is preparing to apply for American citizenship. We are thrilled to have maintained a relationship with Marcel all these years and that we planted the seed in him to having a life in the U.S.