January 19 through 24, 2009

Monday 19~~~~This morning our friend Gary picked us up and we drove Dana Point stopping at the "Ritz Carlton' so Kent could show Gary and I how neat the place is on the patio that over looks the ocean, the view was awesome from there. Kent stayed here when he was a business man on one of his many business trips to California. From here we drove to Newport Beach where we walked down to a neat view point where we ate our picnic lunch and watched some porpoises in the water and some surfers. The weather was close to 80 and we sure enjoyed the warmth of it, feeling happy we aren't back home with the cold spell they are experiencing there. Next we rode a 3 car (plus a few passengers) ferry to Balboa Island. It is a real neat island with very expensive houses and a lot of neat shops. We just wanted to see what was there and we have plenty of time to do these things. We forgot to bring our camera, so we have no pictures of this beautiful place. Tuesday 20~~~ Today is the Inauguration of President Obama, we started watching it in bed early and Sharon stayed home all day watching all of it. Kent got bored early and spent the afternoon with Gary doing errands they needed to do. Sharon watched the TV until the Inauguration ended at 10 PM, Kent played with the computer and then watched some television. It was quite exciting to see so many people attending the inauguration and beings we had just been there last fall, it was so neat to have been in all those places they showed on TV and to know how far they had to walk to get there. We were tired from all the walking when we were there, we rode a city bus as far as the buses could take us and it still was a long ways. I can't imagine all those streets being closed and walking 15 -20 blocks or more to stand for all those hours to see them drive by. I don't think I could do that. Wednesday 21~~~~It has been sprinkling rain off and on this morning, Gary drove us around the route of the "Carlsbad Marathon" to be held on Sunday. I had packed another picnic lunch for us which we wound us eating in the car because of the sprinkles. We just got done when the sun really came out, so we walked the beach and collected more sea shells for Sharon's bird bath she is going to make someday when we are off the road traveling so much. This evening Kent and I went to a movie at the Carlsbad library, they have free movies on Wednesday nights at the theatre there. Saturday 24~~~ We went to the Casino in Valley View with Gary today, none of us got rich today. On the way home, we stopped at the Mission so Sharon could go to Mass tonight. When Mass was over, Kent came back and we headed for Temecula where we met our good friends Dallas and La wanna, (picture) we went to our favorite pizza parlor where we had a great time catching us on each other's lives while eating pizza. They are actually from Oregon also, we met over two years ago at an Elk's Club and we have stayed in touch ever since and we keep finding each other at different places. We sure have fun together.