Birthday Week Begins

Happy Birthday week to Stein! In honor of the birthday boy, here is a list of some of the great memories that we have made together. And because I am feeling some cabin fever and in need of a vacation, this list has a vacation theme, too:

• Being in Seattle, afraid of heights (me) on the Space Needle.
• Drinking wine with Chris, Steve and Kate in Napa.
• Skiing in Colorado and eating lunch outside on the sunny mountainside at Winter Park.
• Sitting on the deck of the USS Missouri in Honolulu, eating dinner and listening to a big band play.
• Eating the best paella I've ever had and getting sunburned in April at an outside cafe in Madrid.
• Tromping around Gaudi Park in Barcelona.
• Walking on hardened lava cautiously (me) and watching flowing lava in Hawaii.
• Being the only people on a beach in Naples, FL because the temps were too low for the locals.
• Cubs spring training games in Arizona.
• A day in Sedona with a Pink Jeep tour, a drink at the Enchantment resort, and a beautiful sunset on the red rocks.
• Eating pancakes at Pamela's in Pittsburgh.
• Laughing with our friends while eating crab in Maryland.
• Watching a football game at Penn State. Twice. One time arriving in style in a metallic green Mustang.
• Sitting in adirondack chairs on the lawn of Mission Resort on Mackinac Island.
  
• Walking around the monuments of DC at night. On more than one occasion.
• Eating dinner on the grounds of the union at Marquette on a beautiful summer night.
  
• Watching sunsets for five consecutive days up north, each night different than the next.
• Sitting on the beach in Maui for hours reading, sleeping, sunning, swimming.
• Cruising down the mountain in Maui on bicycles, shedding layers of clothes as we went.
• Wandering around Quebec City with nowhere to go.
• Watching a game at Fenway Park in Boston.

And the list goes on and on...