Things I Miss...

Besides my family and friends, there are a few other things I miss about living in California:

1. When I ran for exercise rather than to catch a bus.
2. When Johnnie was a person's name, not a hospital gown.
3. I still am trying to figure out where "pocketbook" came from...how is that the same as a purse?!
4. When streets were given names other than Harvard and Washington, and where traffic lights/intersections actually had street signs so you knew where you were going. Oh, and they lit up there too!
   
5. Missing R's (such as "cah" =car, "ova"=over) and Added R's - the one that kills me the most is "Idear"=idea, but I've noticed the extra R on a lot of things ending in A (including my last name). They also add R's to words that are already difficult to say, such as "withdrawral", "drawrers" (drawers). It's like learning a whole new language sometimes! haha
6. When things were just "really good" instead of "wicked good", or "wicked weird"
7. The over-usage of "All Set" in Boston - there is always a place and time for "you all set" or "I'm all set". I kinda miss the chill/surfer Cali "I'm good".

Springtime

Easter Brunch Sangrias

Life's been busy (which is good!), so I haven't had much time to blog. We hope you had a very nice Easter! Our Easter was very nice - it was a beautiful day out, and we went to mass at a chapel downtown, where we had never been before. Then we met Angel, Dan, Amanda, & Josh for a tapas brunch. Soooo good!

Brian enjoying the bone marrow - his favorite tapas

The best corn on the cob ever!!!

Springtime here on the East Coast is gorgeous!! It truly is a wonderful symbol of resurrection and new life! The trees are no longer bare and now it is a lovely green all around. And the flowers are out of this world! I wish I had taken more pictures because some of the flowery trees have already lost a lot of flowers from the rain and wind. Here are a few pictures, but it is nothing like seeing it in person - the best part was watching the transition from naked to "dressed" trees. Quite amazing.