Nora Evelyn

San Antonio, for Nora, was largely an opportunity to point at things.

By far, Nora’s favorite part of our trip to San Antonio was the boats that travel up and down the river – water taxis, maintenance boats, river tour boats. Every time Nora saw one she would gleefully yell “boat!” Imagine her excitement when we actually rode on a boat:

After the successful presentation of my “Aerodynamic Modeling of Coarticulation for Concatenative Speech Synthesis” poster at the Acoustical Society of America meeting we took advantage of the brief window of gorgeous weather. We took Nora to visit a spot made famous by the filming of “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” way back in 1985 (it’s important to know a little bit about history when traveling).

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In preparation for our tex-mex trip to tex-mex San Antonio, we fed Nora her first tex-mex taco back on October 19th (it was a busy month, sorry) and a tex-mex quesadilla on the 20th. It went surprisingly tex-mex well.