Our 25th Anniversary!!!
On Saturday, March 8th, we attended CSULB's Homecoming celebration. Many don't know this, but Scott and I both received our Bachelor degrees from Long Beach State's College of Business Administration at the same time - May of 1983. In fact, we were in the same commencement ceremony but we did not know each other at the time. In 1986 we worked for the same company (Add+On Systems), and I had my degree hanging on my office wall. When Scott saw it, he told me he also received his degree from Long Beach State. When he looked at the date on my degree, he realized that we both graduated at the same time. I often wonder how many times our paths crossed during those college years, not knowing that we would be married to each other 25 years later! I've located both of our transcript, but haven't compared them to see if we were ever in the same class...more to come on that!
We were treated to a great buffet lunch, and given free hats, cups, pens, stickers and tickets to their basketball game later that day. Scott even won their raffle for two tickets to one of their Musical Performances this season!
The highlight of the day was a booth that had all of the year book albums on display. We found the 1956 year book with Grampa Bill listed for receiving his Bachelor Degree, and he was also in the 1958 book for his Masters Degree! AWESOME! Next year we hope he will be able to join us.
On the way home, Scott treated me to a pasty, which I had never had before, at this great little place called The Pasty Kitchen - yum - if you've never had one, you've got to try them!
Before I blog about our visit to Kelly and David's on March 1st, I need to mention that we bought a new motorcycle about a month ago. I enjoy riding with Scott, and the one he had wasn't really designed for two-up riding. So we sold his V-Strom and bought a beautiful Yamaha Road Star Silverado which is great for touring. We planned our first long trip; a 200 mile ride that started on the Ortega Highway where we stopped for breakfast at Hells Kitchen (YUMMY!); on to Idyllwild (it was warm and beautiful once we got above the clouds); through Garner Valley and down to Temecula to see Kelly, David and D Boyz.
What a great visit - Eli is getting sooooo big, and D Boyz are so cute and sweet and fun! I love them all!!! Here's a picture of 5 of them on our new bike (Adam was inside bowling on the Wii). I wish we could have stayed longer, but it was very cold that day, and Scott was coming down with a cold, so we wanted to get home before dark and could only stay a few hours. We'll plan another trip when it's warmer!
The weekend of February 24th/25th was a lot of fun with Michele and David here to share it with us.
THE BLASTERS
On Saturday night we went to The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano to see The Blasters perform, along with Graceland Mafia, Three Bad Jacks, and Hacienda Brothers. It was a lot of great music, good food, and fun. I wore this awesome dress I found among some of the clothes Abbie left in her closet here, which was perfect for our night of Rockabilly music. Abbie told me the dress belonged to the Grandmother of one of her high school friends, and I received so many compliments on it!
NASCAR
Sunday was the NASCAR race at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. The plan was to go to the race, then head to Kelly and David's for dinner. Unfortunately it rained all morning and the race was postponed. We finally headed to the speedway in the early afternoon after the rain stopped. We have never been to a NASCAR race before...WOW - what an awesome experience...we became fans. Unfortunately, after several hours of racing and a lot of yellow flags because of accidents caused by the wet track, the rain came back and the race was postponed. By then it was too late to go see Kelly and David and the boys, which was disappointing. The next morning the four of us drove back out to the track to see the finish of the race!
Our 25th Anniversary!!!
