Catching Up!

Here is a quick synopsis (I tried to keep it short - LOL) of what I've been up to since my birthday. Hope to get all caught up this week. There is a Laume

Winchester Mystery House

Lunch with Laume's friend Kathy

Hotel In Santa Cruz

Julie and her son come over to the hotel to pick us up, Julie brings great Birthday Presents!

Owen's play Inherit the Wind

SLEEP

Saturday (The only rainless day)

Check out of hotel

Make arrangements to meet Cindy

Timi, Laume, Cindy and I go to see the Redwoods

Drive to Capitola

Have Lunch at Zelda's with Jaye, Owen, Red Deer, Cindy, Julie, Timi and Laume - This was the most beautiful day and I felt wonderful sitting in the sun!

Walk around the town - buy a huge gift for morgan - which is being shipped

Head off to Hotel in Marina - check in

Drive to a couple of beaches and take photos

Go to Cannery Row and wander around, eat dinner and take more photos.

Back to the hotel

SLEEP

Sunday

• Check out of Hotel
• Squish into Laume's over packed car (Filled with Timi and my suitcases)
• Drive back to Monterey and meet Cindy and her 2 kids at the Aquarium.
• We spent several wonderful hours getting a personal tour by Alex and Megan, took a ton of photos.
• Force Laume to leave the Otters
• Take a picturesque drive to Asilomar
• Check in - find our room
• Show up 2 hours late and find out that Hollis has been talking for over an hour
• Dinner - and then
• SLEEP

Monday - Thursday

• Rain
• Classes
• Meals
• Rain
• Did I mention Rain
• SLEEP

Friday

• Go to class - we had already packed up
• Switch our shuttle reservation to an earlier one
• take the shuttle to San Jose airport
• Get picked up my my SIL, Lisa
• Drive and get Gianna (my Niece)
• See their new home in Fremont
• Have dinner
• Back to Airport for 9:30 flight
• Incoming plane had rain delay - then a medical emergency
• Left California after 11
• SLEEP ON PLANE (Kinda)

Saturday

• Arrive in NYC at 7:00
• Tom actually got there before us! Yeah Tom!
• Drive back to CT
• Have coffee
• Timi leaves
• I take a nap
• Go to Costco
• Mom offers to meet me part way, so I don't have to do a round trip to upstate New York - we decide to do it Sunday
• Dinner
• SLEEP

Sunday

• SLEPT LATE!
• Left at 8:30 for drive to Owego NY
• Swap Morgan to the other car
• Return home
• Work in Studio
• SLEEP

Monday

• WORK - damn!
• LAUNDRY - Damn
• DISHES - DAMN!

I'll post more about the entire trip - and show some photos of my pieces later this week. You can see 4 albums of trip photos (all start with April 06) at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dabbotts/my_photos . None of these photos has been edited yet. If you are on a high speed the slideshow is the easiest way to watch. One post done - about a dozen more to do!!

:-D eirdre