Cambridge again!

Hello Dear readers,

This weekend Chris and I went to Cambridge, our favorite place to relax and visit old friends.  We usually just hang out at Molly and George's place, but this time I wanted to go into the city and walk around a bit.  We had lunch in an old converted church (they do that here), then walked around window shopping and admiring the colleges.

We checked out Trinity College, with it's patron King Henry VIII I believe.  This one is famous for having had Issac Newton, among others.

And this apple tree out front supposedly came from a pip from THE apple tree in Newtons yard..... though a simple core sample would probably show that the tree isn't really that old.

Baby Katelyn has decided to skip crawling in favor of going straight to walking.  It's more exercise for her and for her mom.

but how can you say no to this face?

I think she's grown about 6 inches taller than when we saw her in October, and she eats as much as me now!  We had really good food when we were up there, and Saturday night Molly and George went out to dinner for George's birthday. As a birthday gift Chris and I volunteered to babysit Katelyn.  It consisted of listening to the baby monitor after she had gone to bed at 7:30, so Chris ordered a pizza and we watched Fresh Prince of Bel Air on TV.  It felt like we were a couple of teenagers on a babysitting date. I pity the pizza delivery guy though, when he came I was shushing him furiously (and had just put on a green face mask) because I didn't want the dog to bark and/or Katelyn to wake up!

Finally, I never walk away from Molly's place empty handed. This time Molly asked if I would be interested in her bread machine.  She had asked for it as a birthday present, but after many many tries and experimentation, she couldn't get the kind of loaves she wanted from it, and they don't have a lot of space in their house for something they can't use.  I took it with me all the way home on the train, tube and bus but it was worth it.  It is almost exactly like the machine I had and LOVED in college and graduate school, and I made two loaves in as many days.  For me the most tedious part of bread baking is kneading and rising, and the best part is the experimenting and eating, so a bread machine is great.  This one also has the jam setting, which will come in handy when my veg box sends me fruit that I'm just not that into.

All in all a very restful and happy trip.  So often I come back from travel just exhausted and have to go straight into work, but this was a good one.

Next week, some more of my finished New Years Resolution projects, which are waiting to be photographed.

Cheers