Starting The Week Off Right

After I dropped Mika off at class, I went to Curves and did my work out.  It felt great.  It's been nearly 8 weeks since I went.  I had a lot of family things come up and I joined the fitness gym for the water aerobics classes so Curves has been on hold.  With Mika here and having to be at class at 9:00 I can't get to water aerobics for 2 weeks so it's back to Curves.  After I finished, I had to come home and take another shower.  The humidity really amped up the sweat index but I think that's a good thing when you are exercising.  Now I just need to drink some extra water today to make up for it.

I wrote about our little earthquake yesterday.  About 1/2 the comments came from people who had experienced one personally and 1/2 from those who had not.  I suppose if you have never felt one, it might seem very scary and strange to all of a sudden feel the ground shake and hear the house rattle.  It sounds like a big truck or thunder as it comes.  You can actually hear it before you feel it.  We have been through so many that when we hear the first thunder of a storm we usually stop and wait for the house to shake then when it doesn't we know it was something else.  LOL  There have been four quakes in the 51 years that I've lived here that have made a significant impact on me because of the damage they have done in surrounding areas.  I personally have never had any damage to a home I was living in, thank you, Jesus.  I would rather have an earthquake than a tornado or a hurricane any day.  I would prefer if we never had any of these things that cause so much heart ache for so many.

I want to write about the weekend.  Some really neat things happened that I want to be sure to enter in my journal.  On Saturday morning, I drove to Brea (which is about a 40 min. drive) and met two girlfriends for lunch.  I used to work with both of them in the early 70's but I have known Linda since I was a little kid.  We grew up in the same neighborhood and it was a coincidence that we got a job at the same place.  Vicki and I have kept in touch over the years and see each other about once a year.  Vicki and I hadn't seen Linda in over 20 years.  I found her by going on a web site to see if my high school class was having a reunion next year.  I scrolled thru all the names from my high school and found that she had registered and left an email address so I sent her an email.  She was as happy to hear from me as I was to find her.  We met at The Cheese Cake Factory for lunch.  I knew her instantly.  She hasn't aged at all (well, maybe a tad).  We all exchanged hugs then sat down and fell into a conversation as easily as if we had seen each other the day before.  We chatted feverishly until we placed our orders and then we each took about 20 minutes to talk about what had been and what was going on in our lives.  We pulled out pictures of our kids and their kids (if they had any).  We talked from 11:00 to 1:30 non-stop.  I think we could have talked the entire day if pressing engagements hadn't forced us to stop.  We left promising it wouldn't be another 20 years before we got together again.  Time is just to precious to let friendships like this go for so long.

Yesterday we went to Laguna Beach for the day.  We were hoping to escape the heat but it wasn't much better there.  It was about 90 degrees, very humid and no breeze.  All of this very unusual.  We took an Easy-Up (like a tent with no sides) for shade, chairs, coolers with our lunch and lots of bottled water.  Bryan, Shannon and the kids were there along with Cari and Sam, Dennis and I and Mika and her best friend, Tomea (pronounced Toe-May).  Everyone except Dennis and I went in the water.  We have an aversion to ocean water.  It's not too clean off our coast line.  Younger people don't care about that.  They just want to cool off and have fun.

While they were down by the water, two seals came ashore.  The lifeguards immediately had everyone out of the water and moved everyone at least 25 yards down the beach to give the animals their space. They drew quite a crowd.  They looked at the people - the people looked at them and within about 5 minutes they were diving back in the water and disappearing again.  About 15 minutes later, here they come again.  The lifeguards repeated the same drill.  The seals repeated their drill.  This happened about 3 more times over the next 1-1/2 hours.  It was like those seals were teasing everyone on the beach.  You could almost imagine them having a conversation, "Ok, now, let's head back in and make 'em scatter."  LOL  Megan, Nathan, and Andrew thought it was great to see them - the adults were getting pretty annoyed.

Last night, Cari and Sam took Mika and Tomea to Calif. Pizza Kitchen for dinner.  They tried pepperoni for the first time and liked it.  They said in Japan they have corn on their pizza.  I guess they had a great time.  Cari just got the biggest kick out of the girls.  She said they were so funny and having a great time out with the University students. I hope to post some pictures soon.

Until later......................................   ô..ô