MLK Day

I was surprised to hear that America holds a public holiday to celebrate the life of a 16th Century German monk (that's a theology joke that, surprisingly, very few people around here find funny...) but Martin Luther King Day marks the end of Hannah's Christmas holiday. The Haas students are sad, and their partners have organised lunch out to "commiserate" with each other.

It's been another ridiculously hot day here in California and the pictures below are really just to encourage you to move out here (or, at least, come and see us for a holiday).

Tomorrow will feature a very special live* blog from the Obama Inauguration!

* possibly



It's January 19th! Surely this isn't right.



Most people can't tell us apart from normal Americans now.



Albany beach's not-quite-golden sands.