We enjoyed some weekends in Santa Cruz to see Ari who is attending the University of California there.

Ari, Mailea, Neil, Nan
 
Mailea, Ari, and Neil prepared for a hike in search of the UC Santa Cruz mascot -- the Banana Slug.

The area behind the university is gorgeous.... Wait, what's this??

Hooray! We found a banana slug!!! Wanna hold it??



Sure!                         Yuck!

Dad, this calls for some serious personal grooming...

Ari is quite a barber. It was raining outside, so this was the next option to keep hair consolidated.
Now Dad can hang out with the the cool people...

 at Rockinauts practice (so sorry, the camera only caught Nan's knuckles next to Maug's nose).
What a beautiful day. How about some golf??

Greg has picked up golf again since he graduated (none of those divots are from him though!).

  Mailea and Neil also played but you can see how serious they take it. They are discussing the fact that right now at the University of Rode Island, where Mailea will soon start graduate school, the wind chill is about -10 degrees.

In fact Neil takes it so serious, he played in his bathrobe... Correction: his hiking robe... Correction: his golfing robe (it's a long story).