The Price of Airfare

I was theorizing about what it would cost to visit England to see my daughter after she moves there this fall. Not wanting to skew the results with the cost around holidays, I picked a date in mid-September as a comparison point.

Hey! That seems very affordable. $750 is doable. In fact, given that an eight hour flight in coach would nearly kill me, I wonder what first class costs.

A factor of 10 to 20 higher? Ummm, maybe not.

The Wedding

We are just back from our daughter's wedding in Pasadena. Despite what some folks at the reception asked, no we were not the wedding party that had to be airlifted out of the Sierra Madre fire zone.

It was in a park, though, just south of Jet Propulsion Lab. I've posted the video above, and there are some photos loaded at Flickr. My thanks to Michele, who took all the best shots.

What My Kid Is Up To

Meanwhile, in Minneapolis

No, not the bridge collapse.

Today the Astronomer-in-Training passed her PhD oral exams. So, it's off to do her dissertation project. Well, that and finishing her written exams.

In the meantime my big project is to try to finish paying off her BS degree before she gets the PhD.

Engagement

Michael and Winifred Ryan, PhD of Gloucester Point, Virginia are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Erin Lee Ryan, to Mark David Lacy, PhD, son of David and Penelope Lacy of Worthing, Sussex, England.

Erin is a 2002 graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Astronomy. She is currently a PhD student in Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, and resides in Minneapolis. Mark is employed by the Spitzer Space Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, and resides in Pasadena, California.

No wedding date has been announced.