Spring break

 

Looks like a mass exodus at SeaTac this morning, with folks trying to escape this endless winter-spring weather. Those days of "getting there is half the fun" are long gone, so imagine the big zoo inside the terminal, from parking entrance to departure. 

The Methow families have an overnight flight today from Tahiti, getting back to Seattle reality tomorrow morning. 

Maya has turned into a Polynesian girl. The lucky kid didn't get that lovely complexion from the sun-burny German side of the family.

Not much else is new. Today is National Library Worker's Day, so hats off to those skilled, hard-working people. I never worked in a public library during my career, but probably would have enjoyed it. 

My, how everything has changed since the 1980's. Even a simple question then meant a trip to the public library card catalog, or a librarian doing a complicated literature search. And always, those rows of reference books for patrons to "look things up." Now a few taps on Google usually does the trick (or does it?) Libraries are as essential as ever.