Around the middle of this month we where pleased to host our cousin Faro Maltese and his beautiful and intelligent wife Fara Galati who decided to spend a few days in Southern California. Although five days in not enough to see what California has to offer, we hope they found it interesting enough and felt welcome enough to consider a return trip. I know everyone they met here was happy to see them and we hope they felt the same. At the end of September Mayra and I went on a short relaxing trip to Santa Barbara and Solvang, places we’ve visited before but worth visiting again.