Lunch with Maya

Alaska the last frontier!

 I spent a wonderful couple of hours over a leisure lunch learning all about Alaska from my friend Maya who returned recently from her third cruise there. Now she will soon be off to Maui before her fall teaching begins. I am a deep shade of green today! Thank you Maya for meeting with me. What a fun lunch.

 

Summer

 

Langston Hughes Gather out of Star-dust

 

"Gather out of star-dust,

earth-dust,

cloud-dust,

storm-dust,

and splinters of hail,

One handful of Dream-Dust

Not for sale." -Langston Hughes

A Fun Adventure with Sherri and Ellen

 

 

  My friends and I had a wonderful adventure today. We took the Water taxi aqualink boat from Alamitos bay to Shoreline Village . 

 

 

 This is a 45 minutes boat ride and costs $5.00 one way. 

 

 

 

 

My gf’s Sherri, Ellen and I set out for a fun adventure.

 

 

 

We had fun walking along shoreline village to our destination “Parker’s Lighthouse restaurant “. 

 

 

 

 

 Plenty of fun things to do here and lots of choices for places to eat and shop plus the aquarium of the pacific.

 

 

 

 Be careful to check daily schedules and get in line 15 minutes before departure. We miscalculated and called an uber.

They take 70 passengers and it may be an hour wait or more for the next boat.

 

 

Summertime

 1955 film by David Lean "Summertime" filmed in Venice, Italy starring Kathrine Hepburn and Rosanno Brazzi.

End of Italian Vacation Days

 The end of the vacation days in Florence included a last ride on the Carousel and leaving the apartment they called home for June and July. 

 

 

Some summer memories Florence 2025

 

 

 Michael learns to crawl in Florence

 The kids headed south bound making a two day stop in Abruzzo. There they swam and rode a bicycle carriage and had so much fun.  

 

 

 

Then they arrived in Palazzo to be with Nonna and all the family once again for Michael's baptism.  A separate post for that.

 

 

 

  After the days in Palazzo one more week in Portugal to enjoy vacation with friends.  What a wonderful summer they've had.