Z&T Engagement!

I feel remiss in not announcing in last months post that Zach and Tiffany are engaged! Since this is somewhat old news, I guess a old stock photo from this summer will be ok:

The wedding bells will chime in June 2012 in Rochester.

We got back last week from a 10 day trip to the West. Lets see if anyone can guess where this photo is from (Abbey is probably the only one who might have a shot at this one):

First stop, San Antonio.

Helen attended her annual Epilepsy conference:

I did my tele-commute-out-of-the-hotel thing. After work I toured the river walk:

A couple of miles of river and walkways. At night, with the xmas lights, is really pretty:

Of course the most famous attraction is The Alamo. If you look in the upper right of this photo, you can see it labeled as the Cro Cett Hotel, one h away from being a crochet knitters haven:

I wonder what Davey Crocket and Daniel Boon would say. They probably didn’t knit much. Today the Alamo is under siege by skyscrapers. This photo is taken from the space needle tower two photos back. The Alamo is the building in the trees, across the street from the Haunted Adventure and Tomb Rider 3D rides:

This is Helen and a college researching their dinner entrée, something made with animal foreskin. Judging from their reaction, I think they mostly found porno:

This a superman (or I guess superwoman) lady bug I found on the 20th floor ledge of our hotel, just before she leaped off into the sunset to save us from super villains:

Next stop, Salt Lake City. We spent 1.5 days with a nice realtor friend of Bryan and Christy’s, looking at potential houses to buy. We were very tempted by a contemporary house who’s back yard abuts the state park north of the city, but another buyer out-bid us. Probably just as well, as it was more house than we really needed. We are still looking, but will likely rent for a year, hoping for smaller house that tickles our fancy to come on market.

We wandered downtown a bit. This is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, without the choir:

And the Temple, with xmas lights:

Our last stop was over to Boulder to visit Noah and Jen:

Here we are trying to lure Noah out on a short hike up the rocky bluffs above Boulder:

It was a challenge, as Noah had a paper to write and music to practice. But we succeed!

We spent all of last Sunday flying back to Syracuse. Broken planes, missed connections, and nasty winter storms (this is the day the MetraDome collapsed). But we made it, just in time for Helen to start her final 2.5 weeks of call duty.

Our friend Sophia has spent this last week with us. She is applying to Med School, and is shadowing Helen this week to confirm she really is crazy enough to want to become a Doctor.