The Beatles update ….
25. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
We finished up the Please Please Me album today… amazing that they busted out 10 of the fourteen songs mostly on one day of recording! Both Chris and Joey agree with gma Jennie that the song “ doLes mer
Day three hanging in Richmond
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
Chris is out and about with uncle Tom a bit today while Joey rest at home for the morning. Dropped by Tom’s bar to prep for an event.
Enjoying the sun!
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
Uncle Tom’s bar, the Factory, is set up at a maker’s fair in the Parchester Village in Richmond… we had some great food (from a friend who has all these cheeses from France and a food truck thatLes mer
Joey is a cheater!
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
Joey beat Chris in cribbage and there will be an investigation because for sure he cheated!
Getting our steps in….
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
Helping Joey do his exercise class around the Rosie the Riveter museum with Uncle Tom
We brought the rain?
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
Packing up at the makers market, of course it rains on us!
Ol’ Truck Time
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
Ok, Tom’s 1951 GMC Truck (named “Harriet” after put paternal gma Lyons) is a 3 on a tree bad boy, makes me miss my old ‘83 CJ8 Jeep!
Pinochle!
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
What a great game!! (Tho Tommy and Joey have put on asterisk cuz of some of my suggested shenanigans….what?!?). My partner Michelle constantly bailed me out and we won!
Brrrrr…in Yosemite…
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
Thankfully the temperature in Yosemite is warming up in the next couple of days! (They are having snow!).
Highlights of the day
26. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
So great being with family today! Joey’s highlights were sweet and tasty sushi, cool times at the makers fair, and…. Umm…playing cards was almost fun! (Sorry bro!)
Chris’s loved driving theLes mer
Day four in the City!
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 50 °F
Heading into SF to be with friends!
Nathan and his family!
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 52 °F
Nathan and Christina and their beautiful kids hosted us for banana pancakes! (We’ve known Nathan since doing YWAM day camp in the Hunters Point neighborhood over 20 years ago!). Thanks friends!
Church in North Beach
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 54 °F
Loved visiting Revive Church with Markus and Jen.
Lunch, sweet pizza and sweet pals
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F
SF is something else
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 57 °F
Although we’ve been here before, San Francisco never gets old…
Cousin time
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
Chris used to visit the Kellogg’s family in San Jose often as a kid (Aunt Sandy is Chris’s dad’s lil Sister)… and so we love hanging with the cousins so much! (Games and joy!)
Highlights of the day
27. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
Day five to Monterey Bay and Yosemite
28. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F
So excited to see some of the most beautiful parts of California today! Thanks Kat for making Art out of the photograph of a seal that Joey took at the aquarium
Aquarium time
28. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 57 °F
Best aquarium in the world I’m told!
More Aquarium pix
28. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 57 °F
Still amazed!
17 Mile Drive
28. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
Thanks Markus for suggesting this outing. Joey and I saw golf courses we will never afford to play on! And just stunning views.
Great Monday! Highlights….
28. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F
From a special morning conversation with my cousin to driving into Yosemite and seeing a bear, it was an outstanding day.
Yo!-semite! (Is this Real Life?)
28. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
Driving into the park for the first time was so very magical. And that was before we saw the bear! Excited for our phase of our adventure, in this most excellence of places.
The Maple syrup!
29. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
Best thing we have for breakfast!
Breakfast at the Ahwahnee
29. april 2025, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
Joey’s first fancy breakfast buffet experience… A bit different than the make your own waffle station in a normal hotel! His favorite thing? The Eggs Benedict (come check it out Brian Valley!)Les mer