This is the first ticketed event for us. We travel once again to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, this time after dark. Lit fires illuminate the path up to the Academy. Tickets are scanned and checked against our ID. We a funneled into coat check and end up in beautiful rooms filled with chemists, physicists, economists and their friends and family. Wine and hors d’oeuvres are served. We greet old friends and hob nob with the laureates. The Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is there.
We are careful not to eat too much because we are off to have dinner with Bob Kirshner and Jayne Loader later that evening. At the restaurant, the food is fantastic, the company better. We engage in a four hour epicurean adventure, catching up on life, reminiscing about old times.
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