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Free and working wireless at Charlotte airport! However, I'm sure as hell not going to let anyone steal my cookie, thus: this is also pre-written...
This is the last day of our vacation. After breakfast at Denny's, fortunately at one of their better subsidiaries, we drove to the Charles Schulz Museum. A very intriguing place with lots of Schulz' original Peanuts strips, information about his life and work, and the historical context the comic strips appeared in. We even saw the To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA special exhibition which officially opens tomorrow. Unlike museums about other artists, this one is as modest and factual as Schulz himself was.
After Furvan brought a parcel with the Nerf guns to the post office this morning, we drove to downtown Sacramento. A sandwich, coffee and donut later we went to the California State Capitol building and park. The park with its memorials and trees is a very interesting and relaxing place, a calm island in the middle of a busy city.
We got up almost early, had breakfast and drove to Yosemite National Park. The weather was great again, far less snow and ice on the roads to the park than last year, and only some sorry rests of snow in the park itself. First stop was the Yosemite Valley Panorama Point. Perhaps a bit early, as the Bridal Veil Fall was in the shadow.
We checked out late in the morning and headed for Yosemite. Since driving from San Jose to Yosemite Nat'l Park takes too long to actually do something reasonable in the park, we took some time to visit the Knights Ferry Bridge. It is one of the few remaining covered wooden bridges in the US and really worth the stop.
We went to the Hiller Aviation Museum in Santa Clara today. A hangar full of planes from the beginning of aviation in California to todays planes. Apparently, the San Francisco Bay already was the center of technological inoviation in the US from the end of the 19th century. Where else would you find a wooden plane (that actually flew) constructed by two 15 year old brothers in 1906? I haven't sorted the pictures yet, but the view from the obeservation platform at the municipal airport was also quite interesting.
This FC was the most laid-back, relaxing one since years. I only attended one panel, instead I chatted with a lot of people I haven't met for months. Not many purchases by me in the dealers room (just one calendar and one of Tani's mood badge collections), none in the arts how. The amount of fursuits in the parade was amazing: 530 costumes according to Frysco. This year, they didn't fit under the roof anymore.
I see a point in reminding employers of a restaurant to wash their hands, even though it should be self-evident. However, finding instructions on how to wash hands makes you think about the state of humanity...