Nov 06 2008

We Forgot to Take a Picture Again

Published by at 11:26 am under California,Western U.S.

This would be the place we would have included our view from our window while we stayed with our friends Sharon and Charla in the Bay Area.  Unfortunately, we forgot, again.  Sorry.  I feel like we let down our readers.  😉

Sharon and Charla moved from Boston to Alameda (an island in the east Bay) about a year and a half ago, and bought a beautiful old house which needed some TLC.  So far, they’ve completed renovation of the kitchen, where Charla whupped us up a mess of vittles every day (she is a great cook!).  Anyway, had we taken the picture, you would have seen their back yard, which features a lemon tree, an orange tree and an apple tree, as well as tomatoes.

We really chilled out while we were there (4 nights!), but we did manage to do a few things:

  • Visited Sharon’s horse Red Hot at her stable in Walnut Creek to put metal flashing on the wooden fence so she would stop eating it.
  • Went to a wine tasting at Rosenblum Cellars, a winemaker on Alameda that sources grapes from growers throughout California.
  • Spent an afternoon in Monterey walking around Cannery Row and eating seafood.
  • Visited the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose.  The woman who lived here believed that she needed to perpetually build her home to appease angry spirits (it’s hard to describe this place.  It is a Victorian mansion with 160 rooms, and it’s completely wacky).  The woman who built it was the widow of the Winchester gun guy, and was crazy.  Also, the guy who gave us our tour was like a cross between Barney Frank and Paul Lynde, which made the experience all the more interesting.
  • Cleaned and dried out our tent!
  • Watched the Pats-Colts game (wah wah wah waah).
  • Had a yummy dinner with my high school friend Jenn and watched election night coverage at a party with her friends (Yay Obama, boo California Prop. 8.)

Here are a couple of pictures:

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Charla (left) and Sharon sated on Monterey seafood

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The four of us doing one of the things we do best

– Meredith

2 responses so far

2 Responses to “We Forgot to Take a Picture Again”

  1. Patrick Omilian says:

    Get back to work you slackers!

  2. Paul Serotkin says:

    Hello there Meredith,
    Cool blog.
    How are you kid? I got your LinkedIn invite but it does not appear that my acceptance was relayed to you.
    Did you always have such wanderlust?
    Give me a shout.
    All the best
    Paul