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Easter Sunday

We didn't go to Church. We didn't even have a large traditional afternoon meal (we did that on Saturday.) We had a french toast (or is that freedom toast?) brunch with fried ham leftover from the day before. We did talk about religion, though, and tried to work out the story of Easter without consulting the Bible or the Internet. I think we did ok.

Then we played mini-golf.

The course we went to isn't the typical mini-golf course. This one, the only one in Napa, was small and cramped. There was no one playing when we got there, so we had the place to ourselves for the first half. I did terribly. I forget the ending scores, but Gary Sr. and Emily beat both me and Gary, and Gary beat me by over 10 points. At this course, it's not so much a game of skill as it is a game of chance, although skill does come in handy.

After the game we went to Napa's downtown district for a snack. They had recently opened a new restaurant/fancy grocery/hotel/luxury hang-out place. It was sort of quaint, but in a very contrived way. You could tell that everything was brand new, except the buildings which were part of what had been the warehouse district. It was as if they were trying to create some hip culture where none had been, and decided to forego the incubation period that those places (e.g. Greenwich Village, Paris, etc.) really need to succeed. We stopped at a deli for gourmet sodas, and then to a great bakery for cupcakes. The bakery had once been inside a warehouse, and had some sort of grinder or hopper contraption in the middle of the room. None of us could figure out how it worked, although Gary determined that one part was a brake (for what, though, we don't know.)

After getting home we helped Gary Sr move his futon collection around. He has two, and both were in the wrong part of the house (they had been moved while his floor was being redone.) Gary and I half complained and half teased his dad about the futons. It seemed to us that we were moving his original futon from one area to the next several times a year. He says this was the last move, that this is where the futons would live for now on. We'll see how long this lasts. :)

It actually took all four of us to accomplish this task, mainly because we were trying to move one futon from an outside building to the main bulding via the window, and the other futon from the garage to the outside building. Luckily it didn't rain on us, and the futons fit through all the doorways and windows.

Posted by Jen at April 22, 2003 08:18 AM