WHAT A WEEK

Well this has been an interesting week for sure. This past Wed. we had a busy day planned & it got even busier. It was to start out with Diane & I going to lunch & shopping at Jack London Square....a nice girls day out. About the time I was getting ready Steve came home from work with bad case of heartburn. He felt he would be ok but was supposed to meet us later in Oakland for a photo exhibit by a friend of ours....he would let us know. When Diane arrived she tried to get Steve to go to Dr. but he said he was fine....we took off.

Arrived at Jack London Square...it was a gorgeous day.

After we wandered around a bit we had a fabulous lunch at Kincaid's....complete with Margarita's of course. I had a Hot Crab Sandwich which was to die for & Diane had French Onion soup & Salad. We finished up with Key Lime Pie at the suggestion of our serverAfter lunch we did a little more sightseeing & shopping & decided to stop in to Cocina Poblana for a final Margarita before we needed to go to the photo gallery. The Restaurant was very nice tho not the best Margarita I've ever had.

After we finished up at JLS we headed up Broadway to the College of the Arts for the first gallery showing of Sean Donnelly's photo's. There was absolutely no parking so we had to park in the lot of a nearby shopping center & walk up the hill to the college. Steve met us there. Also attending were 2 members of East Bay Blue Star Mom's...Tami & Michelle. The show was great...we loved his work. After about an hour or so we need to leave as we still had to stop off in Fremont to pick up Sonja & then head to to San Jose Airport to welcome home the daughter of one of the South Bay Blue Star Mom's. We said our goodbye's to all and left.

We flew down the freeway...making a quick stop in Fremont to pick up Sonja & got back the freeway & headed for the staging area...a Chevron station near the airport. A nice group was there when we arrived...some of the usual attendees plus a new Motorcycle club from the area. They asked me to take their photo. Time came to head out...

Shortly after that last photo was taken Diane grabbed me & told me that Steve was down....at first we thought he was having a sugar drop (he's diabetic) ....luckily we had 2 nurses in the group that took care of him til the EMT's arrived. After the EMT's did their thing they said he was most likely having a heart attack & needed to go to hospital. They started getting him ready for transport. When all this started happening the Patriot Guard moved the flag line to shield the view of Steve so that the soldier would not see him when she arrived.

When the SSgt arrived everything went off without a hitch....lots of hugs from Mom

Got a pix of her with Diane & gave her a Challenge coin before Diane & Sonja took me to the hospital.

More to follow....

A WONDERFUL SUNDAY

We woke up this morning & Steve wanted to go check out Dick Blick art materials store in Oakland......we had never been tho we had definitely seen the catty's. So we got dressed & headed on out....stopped first at Long's to redo our film developing (they had a 99¢ coupon for CD with 1 Hour developing so we could get the film today for $2 more) YEAH. The guy who helped us at Long's is a Navy vet tho I said he looked toooo young to have already done his 4 yrs. He's currently in reserve status but said he will be called up again soon. I told 'The Communicator' that there was no such thing as reserves these days. Anyway....left the film in capable hands & off to Oakland.

Well......the store is definitely nothing like the catty.....it is small. All I got was a poster of the Statue of Liberty during Restoration & 3 gel pens. YIKES! Decided that being we were out that way we would go to Jack London Square to B&N as Steve is looking for a book on paint lettering. Parked the car & were just in time for some wonderful samples.....oh, the Farmer's Market was going on....of some Zucchini Fritters & another Zucchini dish which were both very good. Then into B&N but found nothing. We roamed around for a bit & decided on Lunch at Tony Roma's. Very good. And next door is Ben & Jerry's so had to have a scoop of Cherry Garcia frozen yogurt. Now to walk it all off. Walked around taking pictures......it was a beautiful day.

Before we headed home we stopped to pick up the photo's from yesterday & they turned out great but I just realized he didn't do a CD for us with either roll. I just called & if I bring the negatives in they can put on CD.....thank goodness. So Huey photo's will have to wait another day. Have a great Monday everyone.