Christmas pudding

Flaming Christmas pudding is a McGinnis & Wiland family tradition.
(We've stopped trying to EAT the pudding, but we do enjoy lighting it on fire!)
Look carefully through the flames to see Gage's delighted expression.

Christmas

 Homemade Christmas tree

 

Bourbon @ Jon's house

This does not show all of the shelves of bourbon....

This is the west wall:

then, turning to your left, facing the south wall, you'd see:

More shelves continue along the south wall, but are not as copiously stocked as the two pictured here!

I fell

I dislocated my shoulder, and broke a piece off of the top of my arm bone.

Halloween

Spooky

One leaf

I found a leaf.

Skeletonized by decay.

Face off!

Hiking ... somewhere....

Bristol

Our family in Bristol:

where we stayed with my cousin Matt:

We were very excited to see the Banksy exhibit.

The lines were not as long as we'd feared!

 

  

  

Inside, a few of the treasures:

 

 

Enjoying British beer

scissors - street market, London

A self portrait, by Charlotte

San Francisco

Where we began:

I took this photo for Jon; I think I was worried they'd tell me not to take pictures, and I didn't do an excellent job of focusing this shot.

My favorite restaurant in SF

E, after lunch at a lovely Spanish restaurant

I like these doors!

Lunch at my second favorite restaurant in SF - Tartine, @ Guerrero & 19th - this is croque monsieur with shitakes and tomatoes (bechamel, gruyere), and a whole pickled carrot.  We also ordered a hot grilled sandwich of membrillo and idiazabal (not pictured).

nice sign:

Fish!

Vesuvio

Aquarium

Giant jellies

 

 

and green snakes

City Museum

This enormous outdoor ball pit is more disconcerting than you might expect; it's really quite difficult to move around in it!  Here's Charlotte enjoying it:

And Morgan, nearly submerged:

 

First floor:

 

Fish mosaics:

Burns Night

Haggis and tatties and neeps, o my!