Good Grief!

 Jason’s job has been choosing breakfast spots and (with the help of Yelp) he picked a great one again today. The Naked Pig in Santa Clara is a cute little farm-to-table restaurant and the homemade hollandaise sauce was incredible. 

After filling up, we headed to the Schulz Museum and revisited everything Peanuts. It was interesting to read about how important it was to Schulz to portray real honest emotion in his comic strip. He said that since he had a lot of anxiety, so did Charlie Brown.  Also, he never handed the strip off to anyone else; he wrote and drew it himself until he retired. You can see the tremor in his later drawings. 

This mural is made of individual Peanuts comic strips  

This sculpture shows the evolution of Snoopy  

Shannon made an origami doghouse while Jason did a Peanuts crossword puzzle  

We had lunch at Russian River Brewery: pizza and cheesy garlic bread. Jason tried a beer called Mind Circus IPA,  another called OVL Stout and a tiny Pliny the Elder. Shannon had a beer called Apical Dominance because no biology nerd could pass that up  

In our continuing effort to relax, we went back to the hotel, read our books and then went down to the courtyard to listen to music and eat Food Truck food. The homemade ice cream sandwich was amazing. 

On a side note, we worked our way through the 5th season of Cobra Kai in the evenings. What a ridiculous and fun show!