Visiting Visalia

Saturday morning, we drove up to visit David Martin, attorney at law, his wife, Stephanie Martin, not an attorney at law but a person who still does other things well such as cut hair and tell jokes, and their new baby Matthew, who is an expert pooper and sleeper. (Yes, I am proud of the number of grammatically correct commas I was able to fit into that sentence.) They live in the glorious Central Valley wonderland of Visalia -- or as it is sometimes known -- Eden. It was quite nice to get out of the city and enter a realm of affordable houses and families. I mean, the restaurant we ate at actually had tables that could seat more than four people! Definitely not an L.A. establishment. In addition, when Dave took me golfing on Saturday afternoon, we were able to get right onto the course. It wasn't crowded at all. When we went golfing at Rancho Park here in L.A., it took us four hours just to finish the first nine holes! There, we cruised right along. The only thing that was less than ideal was the smog. I was really surprised as we descended from the mountains and saw a dark layer covering the valley. It was a brisk Saturday morning, and there was smog?! I asked Dave about it and he said the surrounding mountains create an all-encompassing inversion layer. It's especially surprising when you think of all the crops growing there. You'd think the broad swath of farmland and fairly low population number would defeat the smog forces, but if you did think that, you'd be wrong.
It was also fun to see their new baby, Matthew. The best part about him was he had old man hair. There was no hair on the top of his head, but he had a ring of blond hair from his ears around the back of his head. It looked just like the bald guy in the "Guess Who?" game. In fact, he was so cute that even Chris couldn't resist snuggling up and holding him.

Ok, so we still couldn't get him to hold the baby sans car seat, but we'll take what we can get.