Hi all,
It's very cold here, although it's been warming up a little. We don't have much snow, but yesterday the high was 12 or so - today it got up to the high 20's. Yesterday, we pretty much stayed in the house, kept the fire going, and worked around inside the house and read. I'm almost done with the book The Candy Bombers. Last night we watched the movie Julie and Julia. Meryl Streep was great - the Julia Child thread of the movie was very funny, but the modern thread with Julie the blogger was not very good, so it was uneven. But overall, we enjoyed it. Today, Joe and I went to Memorial Art Gallery to see a Kimono exhibit that opened this weekend. It was fun - we also attended a lecture by the curator, which was not that great, but the exhibit was interesting. I'm thinking of trying to make a short kimono-style jacket - it's all straight line cuts, I think that I might be able to do it!
Everything seems to be going well with Mike and Jenn - Jenn is trying to adjust to living off campus in a house and is very busy. Mike is doing well - classes are in full swing and McDermott Will and Emery welcomed the summer associates in an email that also listed all of the summer associates:
In Madrid-
On our fourth day, Christmas Day, it was a beautiful morning - about the only time that saw real blue skies. We went to the Palacio Real (Royal Palace), but it was not open for tourists, being a holiday. We missed being able to tour the palace - our vacation was cut short a day because of the difficulty we had getting out there, and this is what ended up dropping off our list. We did get to see the outside though (first picture), and we walked through the Catedral de la Almudena right next door where a mass was preparing to begin. Later, we went to Parque del Retiro (second picture), a beautiful park that was quite busy with a holiday crowd. The park used to be only for the royal family, but it became open to the public in 1869. On nice days you can rent rowing boats on the lake in the park; however, by the time we got to the park the weather had turned back into the typical grey drizzle that we had most of the trip. Later in the day, we stopped again for churros and hot chocolate (third picture) - one of my favorite things to do in Madrid!
Hope everyone is well,
Kind regards,
Terry
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