Back from SoCal

The visit with our best friends in SoCal was so marvelous - all wonderful. We went 1st to a hotel in TJ, next day to the dentist, who fixed Manfred's teeth, no charge. Now they are beautiful again. He finished about 1:30, the driver took us to the border to walk across, because there was nobody lined up. We crossed quickly and got on the slow, bumpy tram to San Diego, then took a slow, bumpy Coaster to the little town of Oceanside.

It was so nice to be able to call Chuck, on my new phone, and tell him where we were. So, he was waiting at the station to take us to the WorldMark condo when we arrived, about 7:30. 

The WorldMark Oceanside condo was very nice, as expected. We had fun cooking and watching movies and talking story. Diane brought her crockpot and cooked some great soup.  Turns out that a crockpot is a good thing to have at a WorldMark condo. 

 

We walked over to the harbor to check out the restaurants and shops, which were very nice. Diane and I used the hot tub and pool, which were wonderful. The next day, when we left, we went to a harbor restaurant for fish and chips. It was sooo good. 

Then we drove to their house in Encinitas, and stayed for 4 more days, cooking, talking, watching movies, playing with iPads. It was great!

Chuck and Manfred had fun making shrimp fettuccine, tortillas, and such.

We flew back to Seattle on Feb 10.
What a wonderful trip this was!

Going for a week in SoCal

We leave tomorrow, Feb 3 and return Feb 10. We go first to the dentist in Tijuana, for Manfred to get his broken teeth fixed. Then we get to visit our best buds, Charles & Diane Fitzgerald, for a week. They have taken a WorldMark condo in Oceanside for a few days, so we will join them there, then proceed to their house in Encinitas on Feb 7. It will be so nice to see them again. And to stay in another WM condo.

We fly non-stop on AlaskaAir to San Diego. The flight is 2 hours 35 minutes. 

It takes us 3½ hours to get from our house to the airplane, allowing 2 hours for security and boarding. I prefer to allow 1½ hours max, but we take a bus that does not give us that choice. 

The dentist's car will meet us at the airport and take us to cross the border, then to the dentist's office. Afterwards they drive us to a hotel for the night, and we get to eat some real Mexican food. Yum! 

Next day we see the dentist again. When we are done, they drive us to the border. We have to do that awful long line, on foot, to cross into the US, where we take a poky, bumpy American train to Oceanside. 

I'm putting all this in for my own reference -- after a month or 2, I forget the details, especially how much time things take. 

A phone, finally

Now I finally got a real, proper cell phone. Not one of those pre-pay junk ones that can't text and are always out of minutes. This is sooo coool!!  Finally, I can phone people, receive calls, and text, just like regular people. And it even has a keyboard! And all thanks to my so-wonderful #1 daughter-in-law. I put the Chihuly w/Space needle pic as home screen.