We had many travels to and from Syracuse in November. We started with a visit to the Billings Clinic. An impressive facility and nice folks:
Then we visited the University Hospital in Salt Lake City:
Beautiful mountain views
And this city comes with a built in cousin (Abbey):
Finally we visited Casper Wyoming. About 50k people, Casper is tied with Cheyenne for being the biggest city in Wyoming, the least populated state in the nation! It has it’s own little mountain on the north side:
And the trout filled North Plate river on the South side:
These cities offer very different job opportunities for Helen. so we are ruminating our options.
Speaking of ruminating, we finished November with Thanksgiving. This time the travel was done by a fleet of children (Aya, Zach, Cheeze, Nick, Chloe) and parents (Boris and Irene).
Much to Helen’s chagrin, Aya cut and died her hair. Helen always proclaimed instant death to any Aya hair cutting, but after much glaring, she managed to live (the rest of us thought it looked nice):
This is me, encouraging Nick to get closer to Chloe:
My cupid arrows worked pretty well:
Cheese needed no encouragement to get close to Zach:
Cheeze (not knowing his proper spelling, I’m mixing it up), was kind of like that mutant kid in ‘Total Recall’ that lived on that rebel guy’s chest, except Cheez is much better looking:
Zach can say ‘up’ and Cheze becomes an instant neck scarf. His favorite driving position:
The boys had a marathon arm wrestling match. Despite Nick’s cheering session, Zach won. He also easily beat me … the boy has massive forearms from his tire slinging days:
Here we see the crazy boys racing down my exercise stairs …. 178 steps (trust me, I’ve counted them many times). They mostly survived the race up them, but the race down almost killed them:
And this is what happens after arm wrestling and stair exercises:
I’ll close with a few more cheezy photos. This is cheezz dominating Helen’s stuffed bear:
And this is Cheze about to get punched in the butt by a guy we found on the campus quad:
Which was a bad idea. Punch him in the butt and he hulks out into a sharp tooth, muscle bound, green eyed monster!
Bruce
