It was a wonderful way to start the week by recording the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa with Paul Muldoon. and this photo was taken by Brian Wilson

Later in the week, I had my first faculty lunch of the year with Andrew Cole (English), Susan Wheeler (Lewis Center and Creative Writing), Eleanor Hubbard (History), Janos Kollar (Mathematics), Everett Zhang (East Asian Studies) and Paul Prucnal (Electrical Engineering) and then returned home where this salad by Jane was being enhanced by tomatoes and other goodies to get to this result which allowed us to greet Lois and Jean and Janet and Larry as we all sat down for pizza.

The next day, Janet and Larry and Jean and Lois got ready and we paused outside Einstein's house for a photo op and then went to the Einstein Museum where we admired this letter and this picture of Albert as an Indian chief as Jean modeled this children's hat and we made our way about the campus before reaching the Lewis Library where we observed the lighting in the tree house

as Jean and Lois Larry and Janet and Suzanne speculated as to whether it would work in LaHabra. At our stop at Hoagie Haven, we ran into Randy Bolten '75 with his number 14 and then we visited the bust of Einstein and the man reading the New York Times before arriving home for a lunch of Hoagies Haven on one side of the table and sushi and salmon salad on the other. After a break, we headed off to Eno Terra where the waiter recorded us (but did not allow us to take a kitchen photo) and then bread and prosecco were served along with onion soup mozzarella salad tuna tartare and artichoke chips before the steak was presented with gnocchi and a pasta dish and then the truffles (white ones) were ground to enhance the remaining plates after which the dessert menu was presented in 4 pages and biscotti were brought as an offering to make up for the missing chantrelle mushrooms and after a final taste of grappa, we called it a night.

Saturday morning started with croissants and as breakfast was taken Suzanne Janet Jane and the others were amused perhaps by the Lingonberries jam and so we could begin our walk past the gnarled tree and the playground with the colored trees in the background before we came to Battle Road and marched down stopping for the occasional colorful tree as we made our way past such trees and on to the Institute's lawn with colorful trees

and a sculpture as we passed this tree and thanked the benefactors as we entered the woods and admired the mushrooms

and made our way through the woods

past the small bridge to the scary suspension bridge which we crossed one by one (or occasionally with more) over and back

and then made our way back into the woods past these flowers of unknown name and bade farewell to Larry, Suzanne and Jean who were heading back as Lois marked the way past the snake tree and through the woods to the Quaker meeting house and on to the cemetery where we could visit Richard Stockton and many others including this girl whose stone was well preserved and then after a tree pause we recorded stones with a misspelling of a professor Jane wanted to learn from and mother and father before heading off to see the large buckeyes (or porcupine skins) which we measured against a scale and then we were on to the battlefield where we saw the history and the tree and the battle memories so that after a few trees and the columns we could make our way past mistimed flowers and on home for a short rest before we began our journey out to lunch past trees to get to a hummus wrap of far too much garlic as we ate in a private dining room at Rockefeller along with our neighbors and seem to have not noticed the food other than the raspberry struddel bite the leftover omelette and Janet's drink which brought back memories of the signature drink. Jeff appeared and took us to his office where we saw his rooster and noticed the post modern journal on his desk before climbing onto the roof to see the slate roof and the scrapings as we recorded slates by the one and in totality before leaving Rockefeller honoring Mr. Fitzrandolph and going to the exhibit in Nassau Hall where we once again saw Richard Stockton.

After some rest, we set the table again and enjoyed the fruit and breads which allowed my plate to materialize into a beautiful face.

The next morning we had a quick brunch which amused the assembled before the food was finished the bags were packed the car was loaded and after final good byes the rental car headed west to Pennsylvania. I ended the period with a lunch for Melissa Lane (Politics), Thomas Gregor (Physics and Lewis Sigler), Cynthia Cherrey (ADM), Uri Hasson (Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute), Atsuko Ueda (East ASian Studies) and Max Weiss (History and Near Eastern Studies)