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Hmm… So… What to say? I just returned from dropping my car off at Cass Collision in Shelby Township. The person seemed pretty insistent on having someone drive me home, but needing the exercise (and with it only about a mile from my house) I walked back anyway. With the weather in the 40s today it was about as cold as Mountain View was at night over the weekend, which I was pretty comfortable with.

Oh, so, yeah. The trip to Mountain View. Except for some cascading delays which put me at the airport a bit more than two hours late, all the traveling went great. I’d never rented a car before, but (likely due to the reservations being handled for me) both the pickup and drop-off went rather well. I was given the option between a Ford Mustang and a Chevy Malibu Maxx, but I opted for the Malibu Maxx in order to have something with better visibility and four doors. While I thought I would be driving people around, that didn’t happen. But… it’s all right.

On Saturday we headed down to Berkeley to grab pizza from The Cheeseboard Collective, which was absolutely wonderful. Mike, Joy, Jeff, Megan, and I ended up sitting on a ledge in front of the bank eating it while drinking Orangina and Reed’s Ginger Beer.

After that we went to the excellent Rabbit’s Food Meadery to taste a bunch of different meads and ciders. I really wanted to get more than just the single bottle of dry mead which I acquired, but due to the whole liquids on a plane security theater and my suitcase it would have been difficult to bring any back. I’ll just have to get more next time I’m out there.

I didn’t take very many photos while I was out there, and (stupidly) none of the meadery itself. The photos I did take can be seen here (photo gallery retired), though. These include a good number of my room, #423, at the Hotel Avante. It really is a great hotel, with a especially friendly staff and wonderfully clean, very comfortable rooms. I was quite happy with it.