Friday of the Week Before Easter

Locked solidly in the rhythm of growing up in the 50s and 60s all Easter vacations began on the week following Easter Sunday. Not so today.

The Starbucks that I frequent had an interesting mix of kids and teachers and parents that had a day off themselves even if the kids did not. Easter break or Spring break is celebrated here the week before Easter this year. The high school students have a minimum day today meaning that they will get out at 12:30. Elementary school students will get out for their vacation a little later in the the day. The college and all of its offices are off today in honor of Ceaser Chavaez day. One of my friends works at the university and so does his wife. They had dropped off their kids at school and were headed for Starbucks for a drop of coffee. There were not many open seats when they arrived as parents were treating their junior high kids to coffee at Starbucks and some of the little kids were their because there school was not in session. Starbucks was hitting the jackpot with their little cake pops, the preferred sweet of the younger generation.

Across the street I saw a water ski boat all set to go find a lake. One problem... a flat tire. It was probably caused by the construction zone that is scheduled to be there until September. They are adding two lanes at the intersection and widening to four lanes passing in in front of the intersection of G and Yosemite. In the meantime it looks like my walk intersections on all sides are undergoing a root canal. Can you imagine having one that took 6 months... mercy!

I got some good iphone photos to sketch from...so.. lets see if they turn out okay.  You can check the people in sketch blog referenced on the right to see if they came out okay.

Have a great weekend!  : ) Pat