Bob's Corner
From our weekly issue dated February 4, 2009
We had a good time visiting family Down South in sunny and warm (unseasonably so) San Diego County during early January. We drove because we had so much stuff to haul, including Christmas presents left behind by daughter Vicki and our granddaughters. They flew to visit us and didn’t have room to take the items home with them.
Plus, we took Scrappy the cat with us. He hit it off with Charlie the cat, and they are doing great together in Carlsbad. I still marvel at the temps there, as they’ve been in the 70s while we Pacific Northwesters are shivering through much lower numbers. Feeling the cold must be because I’ve gotten older. I used to be able to wander around in jeans and a T-shirt no matter what the temp.
One highlight of the trip south was granddaughter Natalie, 6, taking me to a movie theater. That’s right; she had a gift card, and so she and I drove to Oceanside to watch a late-afternoon showing of Bedtime Stories starring Adam Sandler. I was her date. It’s a good children’s movie, for the most part, and we were the only people in that part of the theater. It was a little weird, but fun because we sat all the way in the back, way up high. And because we comprised the entire audience, we could talk. Natalie, like her mom as a young girl, likes to ask questions about what’s happening or why something is happening, or what did someone say.
Another good time was visiting a serenity garden; I think it was in Leucadia. Quite beautiful, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. And we visited a beach at low tide on the Carlsbad coastline. We brought stale bread that Vicki had been saving, and wow, did we get the gulls.
It’s always great to visit Down South, and then we come home. But I’m already ready for another trip. And some warm weather.
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