’22 June

Marsha came out West and we ate our favorites at Ye Olde Kings Head, took a walk to Tongva Park, and then watched a very weird movie. Very Weird. It was Everything Everywhere All At Once. I did like it though.

Look what they have at Whole Foods. Two different varieties of plain Skyr! I bought the one with more protean and less sugar and it is delicious, like the ones in Iceland once you stir it up. In Iceland they eat it with pureed fruit for breakfast, dropped into soup at lunch time, and they make various desserts with it at dinner.

Ann and I had our Happy Birthday to US traditional sushi feast at Musashi
but since I didn’t take any pictures, here are some roses from another day at Palisades Park.

We had a very nice lunch at True Food on the Promenade and then we went shopping. Lilly went shopping actually and we, Angela and I, were her entourage. It was fun. Lilly spent her own money and she had to choose, because everything looks good on Lilly!

Ann and I, the June birthdays, hosted a Birthday Party at Odyssey, a nice place with a view of the whole San Fernando Valley. It was lovely and not to forget life in the Valley, 101 degrees.

Maxine, Marsha, me, Marija, Ann, Alicia. Unfortunately Becky and Ljubica couldn’t make it.

Ingalill invited me to Corsica. So yes, of course, I’m going to Corsica!

The group I met up with in Sweden back in 2019 planned a trip to Corsica for a week in September for 4 couples, then they had a few drop-outs so there was room for me to join too. OK! But I’m not going to go all that way for a week in Corsica so I’m going on my own for almost three weeks in Switzerland. I’ve never been to Switzerland!

More details to follow!

A fountain in one of the Plazas scattered through Little Tokyo.

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Let’s have an outing! A reflect-o at the Japanese American National Museum.

It seems Bonnie and I always default to the Annenberg for our visits – good food, comfy venue, lovely walk, what’s not to like?!

Look what happened while I was gone? Wow!

It’s been a week since I got back and I’ve been pretty busy but not so busy that I haven’t been, for the most part, Resting! Alex came over for a day of chores so that was super-satisfying. Carol came too and we had some fun. I did laundry, a little grocery shopping, some nice visiting with family and friends. Maybe now I’ll be back to remembering to take a photo!

Here are a few I got with my phone:

Susie and I went out and had a great day. We ate a lovely breakfast and then went into Beverly Hills for a tour of the Virginia Robinson Gardens. We both thought it was well worth the trouble to make a reservation, get into their crazy parking lot, etc.. They have a good website, there’s wikipedia, I’ll leave the details to your interest if you want to look it up.

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Second, I went with Hilda, Merlyn, and Susan to see a wonderful production of Conference of the Birds at The Broad Stage. Hilda has been working with the production company since the beginning and due to her efforts they made it happen!

Then we went to Misfits for a celebratory cocktail, and a second celebratory cocktail to my birthday. And the late-night appetizers were Very Delicious. (I haven’t done THAT in a while!) Thanks to Susan for The Book of JOY because who couldn’t use more JOY, and I’ll have a picture of my gift from Hilda later when I’ve figured out its home.

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First though, Lilly and I went to the Bowers Museum for a nice hit of Disney. She was totally thrilled by the Dr Strange pendant and a necklace from Black Panther. The actual favorite thing she found later, was Loci’s Horns. Now That was Exciting!

It’s Juneteenth reminding me of good and evil, it’s Father’s Day to celebrate the dads, and it’s My Birthday.

My sisters Lona and Windy put together such a beautiful afternoon. We had massages, Cynthia treated us to a yummy dinner, we played the most clever table games created by my sisters, and then out in the back yard we played ‘let’s scratch All the scratchers!’ which was a ton of fun!

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And before that Darryl and Angela hosted a beautiful brunch with Liz and Gary too.