Sacramento Valley Homecoming

We picked our friends Nicole and Mike up from the Sacramento Airport late this afternoon. They have been on a three-and-a-half month long honeymoon—their wedding was in late March—and have been travelling throughout the South Seas, Australia, and New Zealand. They seem very relaxed but are happy to return to these parts. We had them over for dinner for a simple mixed greens salad with bread, cheese, and wine. This worked out well: it’s hard to find good salad fixings in the Pacific and they were craving greens. One fun logbook story: when Nicole was a teenager, she was given a journal from the airlines to record her plane rides, collecting the captain’s signature after each trip. She finally completed it on the last leg of their honeymoon, the flight this afternoon from Los Angeles to Sacramento.