Week 51 - California with Natalie - December 8 - December 14, 2025
Thursday, December 11 - We (Jessica, Bev, and I) went to California to visit Natalie who recently moved there after finishing her Physician's Assistant program. We left about noon from PDX and flew to San Jose.
Upon arrival we immediately went into town to find a place to eat our first California food.
Thursday night just happened to be the Holiday party at Groq, where Clay works. There was dinner for everyone!! And there were some people there who had an assortment of wild animals. It was interesting.
Friday -
Natalie's apartment complex is built in a big square on a city block, and inside the block is a swimming pool.
We spent a good deal of time building this cabinet for Natalie - it was to replace an older one that they didn't like anymore. I didn't' do an building, but I did carry all of the packing material out to the dumpster area.
Dinner Friday night was at Groq (where Clay works). I think I had fish and chips and some prime rib.
We walked all along the waterfront (my watch said I did four miles) Here is the Golden Gate Bridge off in the distance.
SUNDAY - we went to Sacrament meeting at Clay and Natalie's ward. It was really interesting - the musical part. The bishop is a concert pianist (in addition to being a prof at Stanford) and he directed the musical numbers. It was amazing when he played the organ...in a way Whitney wishes she could be "allowed" to occasionally
Sunday afternoon we went to the Stanford campus a bit. It's really pretty - I'd call it California early mission architecture....( I prefer "early Oregon forest" on the OSU campus.
For dinner we went to a Japanese noodle place...yummy....and a yogurt dessert.
MONDAY - our outing for this day was to go to Carmel by the Sea. Incredibly cut town - the cuteness quotient was very high - The girls loved it!!!!
We did get to the beach - as good as Oregon's
TUESDAY - back to reality. On our way to the airport we stopped at a brunch place.
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