Everyone has new backpacks: internal frames for Andrew and I, a smaller version for Max, and by special request, a Hello Kitty one for Cedar!
Below: Pix of us on the stoop of our friends' Hanna and Eddie before we set off for JFK airport (2 subway transfers, one airtrain). We stayed at their house our last night, as ours is rented out to a buncha Oberlin students.