Traveless Tuesday

Wow, what a whirlwind it has been the last 10 days. We have seen such miraculous sights, dined on the finest of foods and seen some of the sweetest family gatherings. We are back from California. Although it was good to sleep in our own bed last night, I missed waking up, knowing that someone would just come in and clean up our mess, make the bed and there would be coffee, fruit and hot tea waiting for me downstairs. I could get used to this traveling thing. We have had In And Out Burgers, twice, Pork Belly (which I had never had before), three times, pigeon, duck, cavier pizza, chocolate grilled shrimp, raw kibbi, lobster, the best tiramasu I have ever had in my life, had my picture taken with Ryan Seacrest, two other famous people who I didn’t know, but the group that I was with, was just so excited about seeing them and being with them at dinner, so I just went along with the crowd, and hooped and hollared right along with them (but even when they told me who they were, I didn’t know them, except one, who is the owner of Disney). The other guy was the guy in the Twilight Series of movies. The most favorite thing of the whole week, was spending all the time with my sweetie, and experiencing sitting out over the water at NewPort Beach, just enjoying the sunshine, eatting shrimp salad and just relaxing one whole day. We drove down to Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano and took some gorgeous pics of the mission there. So that will probably be my next painting. It was just an amazing week. Spending time with some friends, some old, some new. A family whose house we went for an Academy Awards dinner on Sunday to watch the awards, was one of the most fun families. There were all Armeanian and Italian. They treated us as their own and just made us feel so welcome. It was a great reminder of how easy it is to welcome others in our homes and to make them feel loved, special and wanted, if we just take the time. It renewed my spirit of desiring to make strangers who walk in my door feel like they are special and wanted. Yes, we are home, tucked away in our abode for awhile, feeling so thankful for people who love us, here at home, as well as in homes 1500 miles away. God is so good to us. He protected us, He protected our family here and our home. He gave us quite a lot of beautiful things to see, one being the most beautiful and largest rainbow we had ever seen, snow topped mountains….blue water, families getting together and enjoying each other and the feast which they had prepared, green valleys, magnificent architecture, and awesome sunsets………it was a most wonderful 10 days to remind us of God’s love to us. We are truly blessed.