Sizzling Hot!

We arrived in Menifee at our Wilderness Lakes campground and it is HOT! Here's a whine warning : It has been in the high 100's every day we've been here. It is still in the high 90's when I walk Max at 6:30 or 7:00 at night! It gets to the high 80's inside because we can only use one air conditioner because they only have 30 amp power here which doesn't work well when it's really hot! Okay I'm done whining!

Yesterday I went to lunch at Berta's in Old Town with several ladies (and one husband) from Ted's high school. Driving down to San Diego I was thinking that I'm driving in air conditioning and I'll be eating in air conditioning - WRONG! They didn't have air conditioning but they did give us a fan so that helped. I will say that when it's not so hot it is a great restaurant. It is not a typical "Mexican" restaurant. They have a great menu, we had great service and the food was wonderful. I had a jickama and black bean salad that was yummy. Everyone at the table enjoyed their food and a good time was had by all!

The Attendees!

Then yesterday evening we met friends Bill & Jany Staley for dinner. Bill and I worked together for 18 years at the CPA firm with David Hawkins and have remained friends. We had dinner at Domenics in Poway and wow, another great restaurant. I was 2 for 2 today! This is a quaint little Italian restaurant. We had a fun waiter and again everyone was happy with their order. Ted enjoys lasagna and it really isn't easy to find a "good" lasagna and he said he would go back and have it again. Bill had asked us if we wanted to come by after dinner to see their recent "home improvements". He apparently forgot to tell Jany about asking us, but she was okay with us coming by. They are really doing a wonderful job on their house. It looks really great. We posed by the stair case which was redone and is really pretty. We had fun with Baxter and Brady the dogs! Baxter has a ball chasing after Brady and the cat, Madison, who declined to pose for the picture! Here's the Staley family:

Good friends, good food and puppies..."Ain't Life Grand!"