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05/09/06
It’s Another Day in Paradise…
Filed under: General
Posted by: Dan @ 8:48 pm

Or is it Brigadoon…

Sandy and I went to the movies last night at the old theatre in downtown Palo Alto…

We saw Brigadoon. If you don’t know the film (Heather and Pat skip ahead) it’s the 1954 movie with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charise… “about two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland who become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.” Amazingly I’ve never seen it before, so to see it on the big screen was a lot of fun. Before and after the movie an organ rises out of the stage in front of the curtains, with a man playing songs from the movie.
And of course, there’s messages in everything… a quote from the movie… “Anything is possible when you love someone… Even miracles…”

Today we went for a 4-mile walk on the paved trails in the hills above the Stanford campus….

They call the area “The Dish” because the trail goes by a radiotelescope dish used by the university for research. It’s a wonderfully peaceful and beautiful place in this mass of humanity… green grass rolling hills and old twisted oak trees.

After walking we had lunch at a deli and went back to the hotel and laid around by the pool in the warm sunshine… making the best of this “California Vacation.”  We will be holding on to the memories of these days next week….

Good night,
Dan

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