Friday

we made plans to visit hearst castle but on the way went to morro bay (kevin got the afternoon off). kevin, kyra (brad was working), jenny and danny.

this sea otter was floating on his back and we couldn't tear ourselves away!

by morro rock

while we were watching the otters, a family asked us to take their picture and then they offered to take ours. as you can see, it was very windy that day!

aren't they so cute? this is the san simeon pier. to see more cuteness just go to dannyandjenny.blogspot.com
on the way to san simeon pier, we dropped into a small museum. it was very interesting. you should go there sometime.

guess who?

i just wanted a scenic shot--not too many elephant seals in view.

just a few here....

a little further along the shore, we found more seals

lots of blubber --- there's a reason they're called "elephant seals" . we finally tore ourselves away from the seals and drove up to the visitor's center for hearst castle. there we found out it was too late for a tour. they were all sold out :( we drove back to san luis where we were scheduled to meet up with some friends of danny's and eat dinner at goshi's. we also met up with brad there on his way home from work

this is only part of what danny ordered....he can really pack it away. sorry i didn't post this sooner, jenny. you could've used it on your blog!

Brad ordered this--egg cake

and this. don't know what it was but he polished it off! after dinner, i suggested that we go to the madonna inn and show everyone the bathroom in the wine cellar.

you can't really tell but that's water running down the rocks in the urinal...kind of like a waterfall

then brad stepped in for a posed shot...only posing people! and that was the end of our day! so much fun to be together!

Thursday afternoon

after we left the eberle wine cave, we drove out to morro bay. of course, we had to drive by my in-laws former home on bali street.
jenny had to take a picture of danny in front of the house so i did too.
then we stopped at the beach for a walk but i can't find any pictures of that event so we'll move on to our tour of the embarcadero. after we stopped at the salt water taffy shop (we were just going to get a sample but ended up buying almost 1 pound of taffy), we went to the aquarium where we were entertained by the seals, especially this one who was very loud if you didn't get the fish to her fast enough. she was quiet if she could see that you didn't have any fish.

if you follow danny and jenny's blog, you will have seen this awful eel--its about 5 feet long. yuck!

we met up with kyra and brad if front of this house in San Luis Obispo. they are house-hunting and really like this one.
after calling kevin, we drove to downtown for farmer's market. he was waiting for us and held a parking spot with his motorcycle. somehow, we both squeezed into the same spot.
we ate dinner at mclintock's where we were entertained by the cooks out in the street while we waited for our reservation. i thought i took pictures but couldn't find any. and that was just day one of our visit.

visitors from afar

no, he isn't a visitor from afar. that's kevin eating asparagus. you can't see it but that's why i took the picture.

kyra is texting brad or receiving a message from him, while we await our food.

here are our visitors--tada, danny and jenny! they wanted to visit us for my birthday but that didn't work out. jenny and i ordered fish and chips, danny ordered ahi steak (he lives by his stomach, check out his blog feedingtherage.blogspot.com

on our way to morro bay, we decided to visit the cave at eberle winery. it was so awesome--i've wanted to go there for awhile and this was the perfect opportunity. jenny and danny posing by this boar statue.

this is where wine starts. lots of juice here...

danny is reading something here on his way into the cave.

lots of barrels of wine here--sorry i don't remember how many.

me and danny by the boar after our cave tour

Hi, handsome!

Yesterday at work, I looked up from my register and there was Kevin at the register in front of me! I said "Hi, handsome!" then I winked at him. Then I heard Kevin ask the cashier if she flirts with all the customers and the cashier replied, "Pretty much". The really cute thing is that Kevin blushed a little--after 33 years of marriage! Isn't that so cute?

confession thursday

ok--i know you are all wondering what happened. well, i failed to reach my goal by last thursday so i didn't post my numbers. i feel that i let you all down. but i will say i weigh 136! that means i've lost 11 1/2 pounds. I will be renewing my determination to get more fit. i've also had requests for pictures--i'm not quite ready for that yet. you'll just have to wait.

the day of my birth

i was born on thursday, may 7th, 1953, at 11:26am to helen irene bridgman and c ray goodwin. i was the 6th child, following mikel, teresa, edward, eric. and steven.

An unplanned game night!

After church yesterday, I fixed cheese omelettes and waffles for dinner (trying to make use of the eggs from our Mad Hens). We all enjoyed the yumminess. Brad was especially happy to find out that we have a waffle iron!

Kevin needed to take his truck to San Miguel so a family could use it to move so Brad followed him there and I didn't want Kyra to leave so I suggested we play Scrabble. Here's the end of our game. I'm really surprised that I won but I give credit to Kyra who helped me get some huge scores. Thanks, Kyra. that was really fun!

When the guys got back, we got out our Trivial Pursuit game that we've had for about 20 years and played girls against the guys. We were getting buzzed by mosquitoes (hence the bug spray) so Kevin suggested I get the stinky candle from the living room. I proceeded to light all available candles and we played until we couldn't read the questions anymore or til Kyra and I won!!! Thanks for a fun night!