A Little of This & a Little of That

What new in San Jose:

The Roses are blooming like crazy. We went for a walk in the San Jose Rose garden Sunday afternoon. It was beautiful - so many roses. We have a few nice roses in our yard and lots and lots of other flowers -- big mess of yellow Columbines


We went on a drive Saturday afternoon - after Dad came home from teaching a workshop - we drove alone the coast - had lunch in an old place in Pescadero - it was so crowded! We had to wait 20 minutes to get a seat - we almost said yes to a seat in the Tavern - but as we followed the waitress into the room we found it was wall to wall black leather and bandannas. So we waited. We had actually seen the wearers of this attire - at least 200 of them - no kidding - We had to wait for them to pass before we made a left turn (picture) then we drove behind them for several miles coming into the city.



We ended up at Phil's for dinner - seeing lots of things on the drive. The Boardwalk was packed as full as a summer day - difficult to find parking places all along the drive. Guess it's summer in California.

Here are a few new facts that you may or may not be aware of:

Several beaches have rivers right now so you have to do some wading to get to the water -- at natural bridges the little lake is a big lake and the river out of it goes all the way to the 'bridges'.

There is a new car bridge to "Phil's" - no more one car bridge.

The prices at Phil's are still way too high. Won't be going there very often

There is no more Castro Middle School - only one Middle School: "Moreland Middle School" - it is where Castro was - the other Middle school is not being used.

The Beehive Book store moved to a little place in the strip mall behind "Goodies Restaurant". They sold the other property - new owners

Century 24 is gone - the one by Toys R Us.

There is finally a Pizza Place where the old Pizza place was on Campbell - It's now a Round Table - we haven't been there.

Well, guess that's all I can think of right now.

Oh - and we did find a few geo's on our travels - It can be so frustrating - I won't go into that one. Here's a picture of Dad writing a sign in at a find in the bushes at Rosicrucian Museum. (sorry it's sideways - don't know how to turn it now)

Have a good day - write more - post more pictures.
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