New Mexico 9/1-4/22

Thursday, Sept. 1...

Here comes our tram at the Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque.

Dinner at Range Cafe, we were fortunate there was live music. That was fun, Erma.

Friday, Sept. 2...

After exercising with Anita, we enjoyed this Bath House in Therapeutic Mineral Water. Also good for the soul.

Breakfast - showing off my sweet potato burrito.

What a history!

Used my Canon and stitched the photos together in Photoshop to get these panoramas.

Went to Cathedral Canyon also known as Tent Rocks

A view from Erma's friend Judith. Erma is on the left.

Saturday, Sept. 3...

This famous Jemez enchilada was from the Farmer's market. The peach pie was eaten before I could make a photo. Both were yummy which we brought home.

At a Thrift store

Sweet dreams. 

Sunday, Sept 4

4:40 am

(We did try the night before but it was not dark enough, the moon was in the way)

Thank you Erma for assisting me with the flash light and moving around outside to get a good view. 

After 2 years of not being opened, this place opened for business. Definitely good finds. 

Erma said this place is a must before I leave. Absolutely.

Frito pie (the Fritos are at the bottom) and fried mushrooms.

Good bye, heading towards Albuquerque.

Erma, I can't thank you enough for your hospitality and our adventures.

Foster Garden, 7/12/22

I came back to Hawaii for my 50th high school reunion and my oldest son's 41st birthday. This girl is definitely putting in years. 

I left on Sept. 16, so I have been gone for 10 months. I really had a good time during my 13 days.

Thank you Derek for convincing to me to bring my camera because my iPhone photos were not good.

I did use my iPhone 13 for this - and edited with Photos. It is hard to get this angle with a camera.

Okay, I was not the only one taking photos of these love birds or should we say love butterflies. They certainly enjoyed each other and I think 20 minutes later they flew away together and continued their mating.

I got permission from the person capturing my usual silly ways. I have been nicknamed "Cilly" for about 8 years. You know who you are.  It definitely was fun at this get together.

 

For lunch, we went to Nico's Pier 38. Yay comfort food. It was ono (yummy). It was easier to buy food from their market.

It was was a fun trip. Many of my groups thanked me for coming because they had not seen each other in awhile - perhaps 2.5 years.

San Jose and San Francisco, 6/3 - 6/5, 2022

I flew into San Jose to give my sister 4 lovely afghans our Grandmother made. Instead of staying with my sister, I stayed with my college roommate, Mary.

Saturday, June 4

Breakfast was yummy, we knew we would be doing a lot of walking. Thanks Mary for the sourdough waffles and Stephen for the mocha coffee.

There are many tiled staircases in San Francisco. Mary took me to this one at 16th and Morago. It was hard to capture the beauty of these stairs. 

Looking up, although it looks like the opposite.

The top

We made it.

We walked further up then went down another group of stairs and reached this other one. It is amazing all the pieces of tiles and that from a distance you can see the pieces come together to form a picture/painting.

We were fortunate that Guo Pei's "Couture Fantasy" was showing at the Legion of Honors. You should google her to see more of her pieces. 

We later enjoyed being at the Japanese Garden at the Golden Gate Park

 

After a full day, Mary made dinner. I forgot to take a photo of it, it was Chicken Adobo. This photo was actually last night's dinner. It was also yummy.

Sunday, June 5

At Google, we had fun with these over sized chairs.

These androids were all decked out. They even got bandaids painted on them - they got their COVID-19 vaccines.

Stone River at Stanford

Stone River

My grandson loves to be read to. I love Sandra Boynton, I am so glad I found these books.

Thank you Mary for a wonderful weekend. It truly was fun. 

I also blogged the other day Flashback: Los Angeles 2019