Home and Late with the Finale!

Washington, DC, Friday, July 12, 2019--We arrived home late Tuesday night and have had a hectic few days arranging our lives to meet daily needs and chores.  Yikes, coming home after being away a good bit is a bear.

However, we can look back on a superb visit to California and Oregon.  To complete the play-list, we thoroughly enjoyed the spoofy, campy, Alice in Wonderland as produced by the Festival.  It's a light, hilarious and very well done take-off on Lewis Carroll's book, with bits and pieces of today thrown into the plot of Alice becoming a queen. 

Dinner, too, at Amuse was superb.  John had almost the same meal as previous years, a double-appetizer of veal sweetbreads, while Ben enjoyed his halibut.  The wines started wtih a Cowhorn Spiral 36, a Côte du Rhône style white from the Applegate Valley, followed by a 2015 Lemelson Vineyard Willamette Valley pinot noir followed by 2017 Stoller  Dundee Hills pinot noir, all from Oregon.

Coming home was easy.  Alaska Airlines was impressive in its service from Santa Rosa to Santa Ana (John Wayne Airport, without the swagger) but somewhere in Santa Ana they misplaced a bag that did not accompany us to Detroit.   Instead it went into a baggage compartment heading off to Minneapolis-St. Paul.  Fortunately nothing was needed from it and it showed up at 8 AM the following morning.  The Delta flights from Santa Ana to Detroit, a huge airport with its own aerial tramway system, and then on to Washington National were comfortable--not like the Level stuff we put up with coming home from Europe--and on time.

We're not planning major trips for the rest of the year, but expect to make reports from the New Jersey Shore in mid-August, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island about our annual trip there to see family and friends.

Night time at the Festival.