Lunch in LA

Last Sunday: get up at 4 am (not unusual for Michaela, but it was for me), walk with Pepper, breakfast, drive to the airport, get the 7:25 AM flight to LAX, get a Lyft to downtown LA and arrive on time at 11 AM at 'the counter', our chosen restaurant for lunch with Markus, Babette, Sophie, Joshua and Amrei, who were on their first full-family trip to the states.
Over customized burgers & fries we got to meet Amrei for the first time, try to reconcile our memories of Joshua and Sophie with their current age, and catch up after oh so many years: good times.

Left: Sophie, Joshua, Markus, Right: Michaela, Jan, Babette, Amrei

After a brief walk through parts of downtown (and a lift ride up the Marriott to enjoy a view from above) it was time to get back: Lyft, LAX -> PDX (flight was delayed, of course), got home by ~ 8 pm.

Monday-Friday: time for our new carpet installation! After thinking and talking about the need for new carpet (or tiles or hardwood or LVP) we had finally settled on carpet a few months ago and after some more delays, it finally got installed last week!

And after a lot of furniture moving, noise and clean up, we got a shiny new carpet!





So after all that we took it easy yesterday, hanging out with Pepper in our hammock in the back yard: