Patti’s Party, a Ride to the Cabin and a Ride to the Coast.

Saturday, 05/12.

Note:
The party pictures are from Joanne H, taken with her phone.

We got started early setting up for todays party.

The first guest to arrive was our friend Loraine.  She and Patti are very colorful today.

 

Even Bob showed up. He isn’t what you would call a party animal so we were surprised to see him.
He is seated by Jo Ann R. You can see top of Josie Q’s head.

Food.

About 3:00 Dave started cooking burgers and dogs.

We set out the salads.

Once the food was cooked…

we all dug in.

Once the food was consumed, there was cake.

Patti’s daughter’s, Dina and Becki and Becki’s boyfriend Dennis having cake.

It was a fun Party and Patti was very happy.

A Ride to the Cabin.

Sunday, 05/13

Jo Ann and Dave wanted to see the cabin so around 9:00 Sunday morning we piled into Patti’s car and headed for the cabin.

Breakfast.

We stopped in Cloverdale at the Hamburger Ranch for breakfast.
Until now we didn’t even know that the place served breakfast.
The food was pretty good.

After breakfast we got onto Highway 128 and headed for Booneville.

When we got to Boonville we stopped at the Market to get some sandwiches to take to the cabin for our lunch.

Dead Mice.

When we got to the cabin everything was in pretty good shape.
I found two dead mice in the waste basket in the cabin.
They must have been the two mice (Mr. & Mrs. Mouse) that Matt saw when he was up here a couple weeks ago. There were no other signs of mice in the cabin.

Lunch.

We wandered around the compound for a while showing Jo and Dave the place.
Pretty soon it was time for lunch. We tried to eat outside but the Mosquito’s were pretty pesky so we ate in the cabin.

The Grove.

After  lunch we took Jo and Dave down to the Grove to show them the giant redwoods and the swimming hole.

Jo and Dave inspecting a giant Redwood at the grove.

We hung out down there for a while enjoying the beauty of the place.

It was getting late so after a while we headed back up to the cabin. We were there for only a short time before we headed for home.

Home.

We got home around 5:30, had leftovers from the party for dinner and I retired around 10:00.

A Ride to the Coast.

Monday 05/14.

Jo Ann and Dave are leaving on Tuesday so we wanted to take them to the coast as living in Eastern Idaho, they don’t get to see the ocean very often.
The plan is to stop by Bob’s place, since it is on the way and head down the coast to Bodega Bay for a seafood lunch at the Spud Point Crab Company.

Breakfast.

We went to Hank’s Creekside Café again for breakfast.
It was good as usual.

After breakfast we headed for the coast.

Bob’s place.

We drove to Guerneville and stopped at Bob’s place. When we got there Bob was just finishing up painting on his new shed. I noticed from reading Bob’s blog that he was painting it hunter green.
As it turned out I had almost two quarts of hunter green paint that I just bought for the water heater project. I only used a small amount of the paint on the water heater stand and would probably not use any again so I decided to give it to Bob. He was very appreciative.

We checked out the garden and chicken enclosures he is building.
You can follow his project on his blog.
http://www.bobseyes.net/ 

After visiting for about an hour we said goodbye to Bob and headed for the coast.

Jenner by The Sea.

We followed River Road west along the Russian River to US-1 where we turned north and drove through the village of Jenner. Just north of the town we stopped at a view turnout to enjoy the view of the river’s mouth and the Pacific Ocean.

Bodega Head.

After a few minutes looking at the view we headed south along the coast to Bodega Bay.
We drove around the north end of the bay to Bodega Head, a point of land that protects the bay and is the most western point of Sonoma county.

There is nothing but ocean from here to Japan.

Spud Point Crab Company.

After enjoying the view from the head, we drove back down to the bay and stopped at the Spud Point Crab Company for some Clam Chowder. The chowder was good but I felt that the last time we ate here, the chowder was a bit better.

Probably my faulty memory.

Once we were finished with the chowder we headed back to Highway 1 and continued our drive along the coast; we went through the town of Bodega Bay.  A few miles south of Bodega Bay we turned east on Highway 12.  A couple miles along Highway 12  we went through the village of Bodega.
In case you don’t know it; Bodega Bay and Bodega were the sight for the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds”.

Home.

We continued east through Sebastopol and after a couple of stops to do some shopping we headed for home.

At home we visited for a while and then ordered Pizza.

Jo and Dave, Going Home.

Jo Ann and Dave are leaving this morning to go back to Idaho.
We have thoroughly enjoyed their visit and hate to see them go. We will see them later this summer, as we are going to Idaho in August.

Okay that was the last few days. It was fun.