The Stephenson Families' Great Californian Adventure

Remember what I said about a trend starting to appear? Sophie is one of Karinas best friends from day care, and I know her Dad pretty well too - a TD over at ILM - so we were invited to the party 2 weekends ago. They live down in Mill Valley (a posh part of the area!) and unfortunately Nat was working so it was just the three of us... they held a "brunch" party - 11am - 1pm and we all had a great time. The weather was pretty bad - rainy and grey (in fact the whole of our county has a series of micro climates due to the topology of the area so it can be sunny in our town and 10 miles down the road it can be rainy and foggy) - so we spent most of the time indoors but it was still great fun and I met a whole bunch of other ILM guys, which can only be a good thing - its called 'networking' I believe! Their house is up in the hillside pretty much enclosed in the woods, a very tranquil place despite the rain!