We woke up early and headed to Rafe and Laurence’s… parked the car and headed up tofast  hike ‘the dish.. Its a 3ish mile walk up soem beutiful rolling hills surrounding the stanford radio telescope.. Ive run and walked this so many times over the years.. so nice to be able to hike  it with diane. 

On the way down we ran into two aggessinve male turkeys.., they wee gaurding their flock that were just off the road.. every time we tried to pass they spread their tails and staryed gogblling.. it was so freaky.. we had to climb up the hill a bit to get aroudn them

We heade back to the airbnb ro clean aup a bit. then headed out to meet our friend shannon and her kid zoe. Shannon and her husband aaron live here in palo alto. Shannon’s parents are our good freinds Kate and steve we’ve known since grad school.   Aaron had to work.. but we agreed to meet shannon and zoe at the zoe near our house. One the way there we stopped at the smal;l but great palo alto tech art museum..  Great stuff !

we finished the museum just in time to cross the street to the zoo.. shannon and zoe showed up a couple of minutes later. . It was a perfect place to meet ! Zoe is gettign so biog.. she just turned 2 !

from there we headed back over to rafes and Laurances.. and spent the rest of the day hangong out , talkign, eating.. and laughing.. so great to have  this time together. 

nite all. nite sam
-me