Alan is ready to hop in the van for the drive to Hopkins, and our flight to warm California.
Alan is ready to hop in the van for the drive to Hopkins, and our flight to warm California.
Butterfly outside our hotel room Friday morning.
Rental van.
Heading down the Conejo Grade into Camarillo.
Typical fields of strawberries, with workers out harvesting them.
On the 101 past Ventura.
hills, not mountains.
a beautiful drive up the coast
arriving at Jenny and David's apartment
David made this dragon to present Jenny's engagement ring.
Lunch with David's grandmother, Sylvia, his sister Lauren, and his friend Richie. Shelly's not in
this picture, she must have still been ordering food.
We were amused to randomly be served the Ohio commemorative cup. Other people got other states.
The sun is shining, the weather is gorgeous, and the bird-of-paradise flowers are beautiful.
and the price of gas is high (it was around $2.20 at home).
now off to Pacifica Suites to check in.
The kaffir lilies by the pool.
Alan and I seized the opportunity to take a dip.
Sarah and Chris have now arrived, bringing Grandmother with them from San Jose.
Grandmother flew in to San Jose, stayed the night there, then did the road trip to Santa Barbara
with them.
We finally got Lisa's Christmas-gift dress to her.
It's for wearing to RenFaires or whereever else it would be fun.
Breakfast at the hotel Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Cattan joined us.
relaxing before checking out.
Sarah and Chris announced that they're expecting a baby on October 21st!!!
Topper's Pizza in Thousand Oaks for dinner with Shelly, McGreevys and Chagis.
The guys were so kind as to take care of ordering and retrieving the food.
After dinner, Jenny and David headed back up the coast to home, Shelly left to reconnect
with her mom, and the rest of us went to the McGreevys' home for a brief game of Apples-to-Apples.
We stayed at the Embassy Suites by LAX Sunday night so as to make it easier to
catch our flights Monday morning. Grandmother was flying back to BWI from LAX.
Her flight would leave a couple hours
later than ours, so we all went to the airport together in the morning.
Neat glass art hanging in the atrium of the hotel.
Back where we started, Monday evening. There's still snow on the ground.