Whatcha Doing/Cooking/Watching/Buying This Weekend? Oct 24-26

Marilyn
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:10:40 +0000

We’re on our 40th anniversary road trip. Drove this morning from San Diego to Ojai, where we had lunch at the Ojai Valley Inn. Inn? Hah! Huge beautiful golf resort with extensive lovely landscaped grounds. They need golf carts to get around. Then on to Solvang, where we picked up Danish pastries for breakfast tomorrow. On to our motel in San Simeon, and dinner in a charming French wine restaurant in Cambria. Tomorrow we are doing the Grand Rooms tour at the Hearst Castle, then up to Carmel for Sunday brunch, then the 17 mile drive. Monday (actual anniversary) is the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a picnic lunch in Point Lobos, then down to Santa Barbara for dinner. Tuesday we head back home, likely stopping for lunch in Laguna Beach.

Not cooking anything!

So not our usual weekend.

One of my favorite moments was when I was chatting with the nice elderly man staffing the Solvang visitors center. I mentioned our anniversary, and he turned around and grabbed this button for us: