Then it was Friday in La Habra and Jane and Ben were reading in their beds as Jane read on while the cookies drew Suzanne's attention as Paige went online to buy a backpack as Christiano watched. Suzanne was watching Gerald Ford's body being prepared for its journey as Christiano was watching Paige conclude her purchase and I was admiring the art work as Ben and Suzanne did the hopping thing on the living room floor and while I decided it would be good to be a loser Janet and Suzanne assembled the troups for our walk past the playground where Ben used the slide etc.

and then reassembled so that Ben could use another slide as Jane stood before the background of downtown LA as we marched on and then caught Mt. Baldy in the direction and on we walked

admiring views

until we came to the guinea pigs where we took a few pictures too many, perhaps.

before the lady who feeds them showed up to do her thing

and we wandered off past the poinsettia tree to record this wonderful sign that isn't as this seems and then saw the car with its occupants as Janet showed her plantings and her most massive bed before I recorded my feet and then Mikey doing his ad for tequilla before we began our journey south bound parking here and going in to the In-N-Out burger but not for a job interview rather for the menu and the artwork though we needed to study the menu and ignore the souvenirs as our order was taken our bumper stickers were received and Christiano and Paige posed as we looked at our order which looked better in the box than on the paper complete with transfats and shakes and wrapped int he best of papers. with ketchup that just wanted to be put on to those fries as Janet Jane and Suzanne Ben and I Christiano and Paige ate away and we captured this collection sign before gathering in the cars for the rider across the county line.

Once we arrived in La Jolla, we gathered possessions and took group pictures before heading to their room where Jane and Ben amused themselves as the women prepared and posed for these mirror photos

while Larry and I did the Smith Brothers thing and all the men did a group pose as Ben posed for some mirror pictures as did I and after observing the paintings we left the TV remote to go past the wallpaper and head to the Hyatt where time was counting down as we spied the birthday boy and marched in to see Arianna and Ben and Jane and the other Ben with Ada taking this photo and then we met the Pinkels, starting with Michael who was joined by Dan and then we had Rob, Linda, Michael and Dan as a group and then Syl with Bernie and Grace Brenner Larry with Aurora and Bob King and Bert Mogin and Charlotte Rubenstein as we were called to our table with Suzanne and Gary Linda with Michael Janet Michael, Jeff and Linda as the soup and salad were served as we admired the flowers and then the main courses came even as little(r) Ben took pictures with Larry and Janet and I captured Ada as the birthday cakes were lit and then prepared for cutting as our hosts, Gary and Linda posed as Michael and Larry waited for Gary, Dansyl and Linda to pose which led to many picture takers and after capturing Isaac and Syl we recorded the time and headed off tot he airport for our flight that ended an excellent trip.