Our second Lake District day was more as John has imagined: sunny and still with blue sky, golden trees and mirror lakes. We walked from Patterdale to Howtown over Place Fell and then took the Ullswater steamer back.

Our first day in the Lake District with Matt and John was just how I had imagined: cloudy and rainy. We went over to Langdale and tried unsuccessfully to climb up to Crinkle Crags. We had a damp lunch at our high point.

Another Zermatt 2004 slideshow is here!

Ethan had a karate training day today in Crowthorne, and he passed the exam for his orange stripe belt--7th mon.

Karen and I spent the day driving around Hampshire looking for a tea house, navigating with my new Tomtom Go, which is certainly one of the coolest toys I've bought in a while.

I finally posted a brief slideshow of on of the Alpine routes Rick and I did this summer. More to come.

Ethan started recorder class this week.

Today we spent a damp but enjoyable time celebrating Sukkot with families from Ethan's Cheder class. We decorated a sukkah with an Italian theme and then drove out to see Mexican, Israeli and Greek sukkot.