San Diego 2017 Day Two

Tuesday 21 March was a beach day. We drove south, crossed the bridge to Coronado, and proceeded to Silver Strand State Beach. We chose that beach because it is remarkably free of people considering that it is spring break. The sand is full of silver glitter and the beach is littered with shells and sand dollars. We stopped at the Hotel del Coronado for a bit of time at the beach and tide pools among the rocks. We found some lovely creamy ice cream at the hotel before heading home to shower. We went back downtown for dinner at Sultan Baklava, a fine Middle-Eastern eatery we discovered last time we were here. The final stop of the evening was Seaport Village.

 Our Airbnb is on the edge of Bay Canyon, filled with eucalyptus

 Downtown San Diego snapped from the Coronado Bridge

 Special accommodations for the elderly

 A whole range of grays greens and blues

 Silver Strand sand dollars

 Sand castles

 That's mine in the foreground with the onion dome

 Tide pools in the rocks

 The gang at the Hotel del Coronado

 Post-ice-cream stupor

 A good nosh at Sultan Baklava

 San Diego Gaslamp Quarter

Fireworks over the USS Midway

A fun day with more to come. That's all for now.

OXO

D.

San Diego 2017 Day One

It is spring break for the Young kids, so Monday 20 March we headed to California for a few days in San Diego. We traveled through Imperial Valley and Blythe, which brought back memories of the 50s with my parents when we traveled there. We arrived at our nice Airbnb and settled in before going for a sushi supper. We arrived at Mission Beach in time to catch the sunset and played there in the dark for a couple of hours. We stopped at Ralph's Market for some supplies before turning in.

 Headed down the highway

 Airbnb with a fine view of Mission Bay

 Gathering space

 Chopsticks at the ready

 Sunset at Mission Beach

 M&G

 Fun with glow sticks

Urban Ralph's with a moving ramp from the parking garage

Good times with more to come. This is all for now.

OXO

D.

March 2017

One month is pretty much like the next, but March is always full of birthdays and this month we also headed to Arizona to join the Youngs on a spring break in San Diego. The San Diego adventures will appear in subsequent posts.

 Bombay House to celebrate Philly's birthday

 Opening gifts

 Lemon cake

 Morning walk

 Tuesday with Evelyn Alta: "pickles"

 HCT: another winner

 "A walk"

 Corned beef and cabbage for March family dinner

 Kristina and wisteria in Henderson

 Palo Verde wearin' the green on Saint Patrick's Day

 Corned beef and cabbage redux

 Morning of soccer matches

 Harry wanted to kick the ball into the back of the car; it 

would have been his third goal!

 Al fresco supper at the Cornish Pasty Company in Scottsdale

 Silly boogers

 Excellent pasties

Mare Mare and her baby

Sunday brunch at Target

Tomorrow we head to San Diego, so there will be more. This, however, is all for now.

OXO

D.

February 2017

We didn't stray far from home in February, but it was good nonetheless. Lots of snow, lots of melting, and lots more snow. Good morning walks, and walks with Evy who is now very excited to "walk" with Pop Pop. The feeling is mutual. There was a Valentine's visit from Debra Sue Darling Gibbs, which is always fun. Phillip planned and executed a fun party for Meags' birthday, and Hank and Colette were in town for Kelsey's baby's blessing. Family dinners and cousins breakfasts as always. Of course we had a fun theater date at Hale Center, so much was as usual.

We are so close to the mountains that even when nothing shows on 

radar, we still have snow -- Argh!

La Capizza with the Colver girls

#39 Verde

 We laughed ourselves silly

Grammy cleaned out the toy cubby and sorted out the 

Mapletown figures much to Evy's delight

At Ringers after the Phillips' baby blessing

Breakfast at Chom with the Palo Alto Taylors

Still cooking and we enjoyed this old favorite: stuffed peppers

More fresh snow at BYU on a morning walk

An afternoon walk with Evy and Katy after a thaw

Happy 40th, Meags

Phillip made yummy mocktails for Meagan's party at

the Sweet Tooth Fairy cellar downtown

Milski and Philly: good buddies since 1978

Pudding-filled peanut butter cake for Meags' dinner

Evy bonding with Grandma Debby

Somebody likes to squeeze in

Bombay House with the girlies

Joe's diner for breakfast

Monthly cousins' breakfast

Downtown Provo and Timp on a morning walk

Family dinner at Colvers: I should have made them look

up and smile

It just hasn't let up -- feels like the winters we remember
from the old days

We have a some fun travels planned for March, so there will be more, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.