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What a wonderful week it was! Monday, No. 9, Mom, Lynn, Mitch and I flew to San Diego, rented a 9 passenger mini van, and checked onto our hotel across from the historic El Cortez, just around the corner from Jessica and Alan’s condo. We had a delicious dinner at one of the Mexican restaurants in Old Town, where we sat outside on this warm evening, enjoying freshly made tortillas and beer, (with food too, of course).

We were joined by Nancy, Doug, Fern, Kayla and Cami on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Steve and Joe arrived. I spent the afternoon baking and freezing wedding cakes, using the new Kitchenaid mixer I had sent to Jessica, while the rest went to the zoo and Balboa Park. That evening we all had pizza and salad in the spacious courtyard at Jessica and Alan’s, followed by wii ski.

Thursday, our car caravan headed for our rented lodge on Palomar Mountain, first stopping for lunch at Stone Brewery, an amazing restaurant/brewery built almost solely of solid granite.   A beautiful pathway winds through boulders and plants, thorough the gift shop and restaurant to an outside courtyard with granite slab tables where we had our lunch.  Jeni, Michael, Meg and Jillian met us there.  The beer and the food were great, as was the ambiance.

After we filled up on food and beer, everyone headed on to Upper Meadow Lodge while Jeni and I stopped to buy groceries at Cosco on the way.  Our first dinner at the lodge, Thursday evening:  Taco Bar – Yum!

Jeni and Earl did most of the cooking, and the food was amazing!   Friday morning we had Earls’ blintzes and that evening we had Thanksgiving.  Jeni and Earl prepared and cooked the turkey, with Earl taking about 30 seconds to reduce it to a platterful of symmetrical slices, and Jeni doing the cranberry sauce and vegetables, and Michael made delicious mashed potatoes.  It was wonderful to have both families together, just like Jessica wanted, with a cozy, homemade dinner and Fern’s apple pie for dessert.

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