Geeky Yet Waterproof

We drove home from Walnut Creek, California (in the Bay Area) yesterday, and it took about 10 hours. I did some of the driving, and let me tell you, California freeways are fun.


There were about 400 people at the wedding — all of them relatives. They all seemed to know me, and I pretended to know who everyone was, but I don’t know if I fooled them.



When the time came for people to give toasts, there was a problem: they wouldn’t stop giving toasts! And some of them sounded like they were making it up as they went along, so it lasted forever.



Also during the toasts, people kept yelling “Banzai!” because, as the DJ explained, it means “10,000 years” — as in “Live 10,000 years!”. What he didn’t say was that the Japanese would say “Banzai” when they were killing people in WWII.



But of course, since most of my readers are swimmers, you want to know about the food: the cake was about three feet high, but I think what we saw was only a model, because the servers seemed to be getting the slices from the kitchen. But I don’t care where it came from; it tasted good.



I had never actually been to California in the summer before, so this was a fun trip. The oven-hot weather just made the outdoor pool even better.



Below are more photos from the trip.