Can't believe we did so much!

First, I’ll apologize for not writing for a while. Things were really busy on the trip, and since then we’ve just been recuperating.

I did baby my arm on the trip, and John took such good care of me. I think I’m using it pretty well, although there’s still I can’t do. We’ll see what the doctor says when I see him on Tuesday. I’m back to just some extra-strength acetominophen during the day and a pain pill before bed, and that seems to work.

As to the trip… it was a great one. There was really a lot packed in and everything went like clockwork. The travel to California was hard, but effective. Ann & Al picked us up in Sacramento, and we went to our extra-special lunch with my blogger friend, Bev. She documented it well (with photo) in her Airy Persiflage about our lunch. That was so great, and I just hope we can meet up again sometime, someplace.

We went north (stopping for groceries at the Costco in Chico) to the vacation house near Lassen Volcanic National Park. A&A’s children had reserved the house in honor of Ann’s 80th birthday and their 60th wedding anniversary. There were some forest fires in the area, which made for some smoky days, but mostly the weather and the scenery were lovely. John’s nieces, nephews, their spouses/significant others, and their children are really great people. It was a real treat to be able to spend some time with them. And we were honored to have been invited to spend this special time with them.

At the end of the week, we drove south to the LA area to spend a few days with A&A. It was a quiet couple of days, but, of course, we got in lots of bridge. And we went to the movies to see Hope Springs , the new movie with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. It’s a pretty good movie.

From LA, we took the train to San Diego to spend a couple of days with Alison and Joe. The train was a great idea and cheap - less than $50 for both of us. Again, it was super to get to visit with A&J for a bit. We ate at an Ethiopian restaurant for a new culinary experience - very good food - and quite different.

Then another extra-special treat - to meet another blogger friend, PoolaGirl (Paula) at the San Diego Automobile Museum. She wrote about it in her blog H.M.S. Pie Rat .

We went out to dinner with Joe’s parents, and then to see a great production of Inherit the Wind at the Old Globe Theater in Balboa Park.

Our flight and shuttle trip home were uneventful and we’ve just been getting rested up since then. Whew!

All in all, it was, again, a fabulous trip - spending time with wonderful family, seeing great scenery, and getting to meet not one, but two, old friends for the first time.

And now back to the broken-arm routine - for a while, at least.