SunnyWarm California!

Our friend Craig Peterson from Minneapolis came to visit us for a week from Jan 30th-Feb 6th. It was a great time for him to get out of the cold and enjoy some of our nice weather. When he arrived it was raining that day, and so he had to drive from the airport to our house in Long Beach in the rain, but he was very happy to do so and enjoyed being in the warm weather.

Craig spent time visiting Hollywood, and the J Paul Getty Museum in the Santa Monica Mountains. http://www.getty.edu/ He also spent a day down in San Diego, and visiting around Long Beach. Dale also took him to several work projects he was doing, and Craig was a very, very willing worker to help Dale with a few places that he needed the extra hand in an attic re-model.

One evening we had a pleasant dinner party with Craig, his friend Loretta who lives in Riverside and Craig knows from Wells Fargo where Criag works, and also our friends Ray and Terry for a nice evening of chatting and socializing. We had a super dinner of Stuffed Mushrooms for appetizers, Blueberry/Pomegranate frozen cocktails, then for dinner smoked duck, and chicken, with spelt, steamed broccoli, and almond/sesame spinach bake. The best part of the dinner was a most wonderful chocolate cheesecake that Ray made and brought over. It is delightful, and went perfectly with a nice cup of fine coffee.

Craig was very sad to go home back to Minnesota, and the frigid cold weather. We had some of the nicest weather of the winter when he was here, and some of the records were broken or tied in Long Beach with a high of 85F one day, and Los Angeles getting up to 89F. It was a stark contrast of a difference of over 100F from the temps in Minnesota for those days! Craig was on the phone letting everyone know that he was certainly enjoying his trip to California! Now that is a good Vacation don't you think?