Fidgety Foots

Last weekend (nov. 11-13th) we visited the old grad school again. Teju had a holiday for veterans day and a bunch of her relatives were meeting in MSU, so we thought it would be a great opportunity to catch up on some old times. The weather in Michigan was unseasonally warm, in fact I think it was colder in the Bay area!!
We had a great time, spent Saturday morning on campus walking near the river and replenished our MSU apparel. In the evening we had a small pooja for divali, the kids lit up some sparklers and we also played some cards (Teju actually beat me in Bluff!!).
Also visited some bars in East Lansing including Harrison Roadhouse which was the first bar I ever went to in the US (actually on my first day in the US, Aug. 8th, 1995!!).
Of course the real excitement was on sunday morning while we were getting ready to leave. For some reason I thought our flight from Detroit left at 2.00pm. So the plan was to leave home at 11.00am which would give us enough time to stop at Georgio’s, pick up pizza and return the rental car. At 10.40am I checked the confirmation and realized that our flight was scheduled to leave Detroit at 12.15pm!! Needless to say the goodbye’s were a little frantic and brief. The next hour wasnt too pleasant with Teju checking to see if there was a later flight (there wasnt) and the possibility of having to fork out an extra $400 to get back to SF on anther airline. We managed to get to Detroit airport car rental center at 11.55am, the Enterprise guys were very understanding and dropped us off in the same car to the airport. We checked in at 12.04 am, ran over a few people on our way through security to the gate and boarded at 12.11am!! So, I guess all is well that ends well, but next time both of us are going to confirm the flight time the day before travelling!!
Anyway, all in all, great trip, wish we had more time though. Here are some pics from the trip.

Here we go again.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9967813/

Thats right, because there isnt evidence for everything that the theory of evolution proposes, lets teach another concept for which no evidence exists at all!!

I personally like this concept a lot more. It has as much evidence as Intelligent Design does, but it looks like a lot more fun!!

Coyote Hills regional park:

We went biking today along the Bay View trail. The trail starts out in Fremont and winds it’s way along the bay. It was a beautiful day - crisp and sunny.

We ended up on a hill with hawks wheeling around and under us. We saw a pair of red-shouldered hawks nesting in the heather and a pair of some other raptor with white and black wings. We were bang in the middle of the bay area - flanked by Dumbarton bridge and San Mateo bridge. The day was so clear, we could even see San Francisco and the Bay bridge!