Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Just a note about our hotel -- Hotel California. It isn't much to look at. The room was small. But what a clientele! There were people from all over the world. I met folks from Australia; a Mathematician from Germany (originally from St. Petersburg, Russia); another Mathematician, Yng-Ing Lee, from Taiwan, whose specialty is Geometry and she teaches at Taiway University; a young man from Hawaii, who did his undergraduate work at Stanford and needed recommendations from professors so he could get into Med school; a Mathematics professor (Dr. Strang) from MIT; a retired Mathematics professor from Japan; a man from Bari, Italy, where Joe's maternal grandparents came from; a mother & daughter from France, who came to visit their son/brother, who is a student at Stanford; a young lady from Singapore; a Jewish woman. Susan, from New York City who was keeping the Passover fast; a couple from Maine; a couple from Sweden; another couple from Belgium, who couldn't speak English; and many more.
They have a small guest kitchen at the hotel, where I would have my oatmeal & juice every morning and an apple before bed. People came into the kitchen to make breakfast and sometimes stayed there to eat it, or they went out on the courtyard to eat. I don't know whether they talked a lot on the courtyard, but we sure did talk in the kitchen. It was so interesting getting to know them.

Well, we made it back home OK. No worse for wear. However, one of our suitcases did not make it with us. We still haven't got it. What is bad is that my hairdryer and makeup are in that suitcase!

All in all, we had a wonderful trip.

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