Sunday, February 08, 2009

Sunset on Laguna Beach
On the patio of a 3rd floor condo overlooking Laguna Beach
A view of Lake Mead from Callville Bay
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The end of our California Trip!

Jan 27 – Feb 8...On Tue., the 27th we drove around 60 miles from Danny’s to Aunt Marge’s in Riverside. We stayed with her until Fri. We walked, shopped, had a lunch and dinner out, went to a ‘happy hour’ party at some neighbors and picked some delicious grapefruit and oranges at Dons. We also enjoyed some ‘down’ time reading a book on the patio watching the golfers go by. On Friday it was time to move on – this time just 15 miles to Corona to visit Sandy & Buster (Mike’s sister). While there we all went to the movie “Last Chance Harvey” which we really enjoyed. Our niece and family came over for dinner. We had fun playing with the kids (3,4 & 7). Sunday we attended church with them then drove 50 miles to Laguna Beach. Marge and Don were at their time-share condo, which was on the 3rd floor with the patio looking out to the ocean. We enjoyed the Super Bowl there and stayed for 2 nights. It was great to see the ocean again and soak up some sun! On Tue., the 3rd it was time to head north. On our first day’s drive we detoured around Las Vegas and saw Lake Mead. That evening we overnighted in Mesquite, NV (390 miles). The next day’s drive was just over 500 miles with an overnight in Idaho Falls, ID. The last day (Thur) was only 360 miles so we made it to our condo by 2pm. We had great weather for the whole trip and thankfully the snow was pretty much gone when we arrived home! On Fri. we got back in the car (with Dad & Mom) and drove about 80 miles to Levi’s basketball game in Box Elder (which they won). Sat. & Sun. was back to normal...the gym, church and the family up for dinner.