Mammoth

These were taken at Mammoth.  The lower Twin Lake you see here is frozen so Trevor and Mack ventured out - cautiously.

We took the gondola to the top.  Lots of skiers and reasonably good snow.  They have improved the interpretive center, and we were shown slides of the previous winters in Mammoth taken from satellite observations.  Very heavy last year, other years not so much.

We stopped at the McCoy Center on the way down and were surprised to see this huge beast in one of the dining rooms.

I talked to Wendy this morning.  They are back from a train trip to Bordeaux where Michel's mother and aunt live. Tomorrow Alex will fly back to Boston, to almost immediately  turn around and leave for Puerto Rico.  He and five other MIT architectural students will join three former MIT students who live in Puerto Rico.  They will go to a small town with no electricity and replace the torn off roofs of houses damaged by the hurricane.  Sounds like a real adventure. We want to hear all about it, Alex.

There will be another Japan story tomorrow.

Love to you all,  Val