Sandro, Kristin, Jordan and Cassidy came with me today to my radiation appointment. It was the kids’ first day of summer vacation and Kristin and I thought that we would give them a treat, ha ha! We all rode the train to LA and when we were at Kaiser, the technicians were super nice and they brought the kids in the radiation room, showed them the machine, the laser beams, the computers, the cameras. The kids were amazed and very curious. They loved it that they could see me from a TV screen while I was being zapped in the other room. After that, we took the metro again and went to Hollywood to do “the tourist thing” on Hollywood Blvd. Really, we only stopped at the newish mall, where the Kodak Theater is and the kids had a blast going through the interactive water fountain. They were drenched! Then they played for what seemed like forever jumping after images projected on a piece of floor. We had lunch at CPK, under a warm California sun and in the shadow of the Hollywood sign. After that, we found a bowling alley and we bowled for quite a while. As a warning: never willingly take me as a bowling partner. I ended up last, after all the kids, with half the score as the littlest one. My ball kept misteriously leaping into the gutter. I swear there must have been an invisible hand pushing it to the left or right! We had a fantastic day. Sandro fell asleep in my arms on the way back. Life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sandro, Kristin, Jordan and Cassidy came with me today to my radiation appointment. It was the kids’ first day of summer vacation and Kristin and I thought that we would give them a treat, ha ha! We all rode the train to LA and when we were at Kaiser, the technicians were super nice and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longbeachit.com\/catia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}