uncle E’s wedding weekend

uncle E’s wedding weekend–sunday

a little pasadena style sight seeing on sunday, before heading to the airport.

dave and I at the rose bowl.

I’m a firm believer in stopping to smell the roses – they smelled good!

pasadena city hall.

outside of the city hall building, there is this giant statue of jackie robinson’s head. so I took a picture of dave by it… of course, it’s hard to resist picking a nose that big…

and then it was time to say goodbye and head to the airport.

our first flight was on a little prop plane to san jose. we had about an hour between flights so we grabbed an appetizer and some drinks at the airport ruby tuesday… savoring our last few minutes of ‘vacation’.

we got home just fine. shane was waiting up for us, but the littles were already asleep. back to real life.

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