More panel sessions today. Some paper grading. A business meeting this evening for the mass communication division, where I served as chief note taker in charge of slowing down proceedings with interjections like “What was that again?” and the occasional “How do you spell that person’s name?”

For lunch we went to Colombia Cafe, big surprise. It is close — not much else seems to be — and it is delicious. We’ve been there for lunch for three days straight and, of course, went to their main restaurant last night for dinner. I could eat there a lot more before it became a chore.

Just in between our hotel and the cafe is the Amelia Center, where we saw the hockey game Thursday night. We were on the river walk and it was framed so nicely between the trees:

Sandwiches at the cafe. I did not have one, but I hear they are terrific. They do a great job with the bread, so I’ve no doubt. The secret, I was told several years ago, is in the bread:

Our friends Jenni and Gavin came to join us again for lunch. We shot this on the balcony of the cafe. There are better pictures, but I’m using this wide and high one to remind us it was an amazingly beautiful day:

The view from our hotel that we don’t have in our room. But the parking deck we can see on the other side of the building is attractive as those things go.

We had dinner with a few more of our friends and said our goodbyes. Our flight leaves tomorrow morning and we might not see them all again before then. You’re always sad to see it go, but that’s only because you bothered to come in the first place.