It was a big birthday weekend in the Lyon household as Darla celebrated the 14th anniversary of her 29th birthday and David hit 21. Darla was actually in San Jose on her birthday as she had one of her cousins in town from Idaho so she left Thursday and spent the evening with them and returned on Friday. Darla had asked me about three weeks ago to not buy her a birthday present or a Mother's day gift and just put the money toward a new laptop for her. We have an HP desktop computer and she has a state owned laptop computer that she uses for work. With her jewelry business growing so fast and her work with the foster agency that requires monthly reports, she wanted her own laptop. I told her at the time that her business needed to buy the computer and that I'd already bought her birthday gift. I shut her down pretty quick and she didn't really give it another thought. In reality, we have some friends that work for Hewlett Packard and I had already ordered her a new HP Pavilion dv9700z Entertainment 17 inch laptop with web cam and 2 GB of memory. The laptop has fingerprint sign on, Microsoft office and Vista Windows and is very nice. I surprised her with it on Wednesday night when we got home from dinner with the Home office visitors at Joe's Crab Shack in Old Sacramento. She was completely surprised and here it is Monday and she's already taken the computer on two trips, one to San Jose and one to Lake Tahoe.
Darla got home on Friday and we met Alicia and her boyfriend, Don, at Paul Martin's American Bistro restaurant in Roseville. Alicia and Darla share the same birthday, although five years apart. It was an interesting visit. Don had stopped at the restaurant earlier in the afternoon and dropped off a cake and two sets of roses for Alicia and Darla. Don and Darla have very similar personalities and both are passionate people and the conversation got a bit heated at times as we discussed the state of health care in America. I had to calm both of them down. It was like a tennis match for Alicia and I watching the two of them go at it. I thought we could have gone to the bar and got a drink together and not been missed. Paul martin is the "P" in P.F. Changs and this is a great restaurant with great food.
Saturday was David's 21st and we took him up to Tahoe for his first "legal" drink and a night of gambling. He was working on some online classes and didn't get finished until almost 4:30 and we left from Roseville picking Darla up in El Dorado Hills at a fundraiser for injured horses where Darla was selling her jewelry. We got up to the hotel (Tahoe Beach and Ski resort) about 6:45 and got checked in. David had to go online and submit his tests and then we went out to the Lakeside Inn and Casino for their legendary Prime Rib dinner. We got David signed up for a players card and both he and Darla got t-shirts, dice, a free drink coupon and a coupon for a free dinner because it was their birthday month. We put our name in for dinner and sat in the bar and David had a margarita. Dinner was great and I splurged with a prime rib as well. David opted for the 20 ounce prime rib and we had lettuce wraps and coconut shrimp appetizers. We finished dinner about 9:30 and ended up sitting and playing nickle video poker until about 1:30 AM. Darla and I paid for David's gambling and with dinner, the room, gambling and breakfast, it was about a $250 outing. We held our own gambling for quite awhile, but were cold late. David hit a number of jackpots with four-of-a-kinds and really seemed to enjoy himself. We went out to Heidi's for breakfast Sunday morning and were back and relaxing on the pool by about 1:30 PM Sunday.
The weather did change last week and we hit 102 on Thursday, 100 Friday, 103 Saturday and 100 yesterday. The heat wave has subsided and today is supposed to top out at 95 degrees and it will be back seasonable by about midweek with mid eighties. The early heat wave really shocked the system. You just haven't prepared for the blast furnace heat and it saps you. I played golf on Saturday and it was 92 degrees when we teed off at 8:30. It seemed even warmer as the water from the ground is evaporating up and the humidity on the course is probably 80 percent. By the back nine, it was up to 98 degrees, but the course had dried out and it was more comfortable. I shot 41+41=82 and took $6 in skins from the group.
We went out to a house party at Darren and Marissa's last night. I had thought it was just the golf guys getting together, but when we got there he had all of his neighbor's over for a barbecue. We got there a little late as Darla didn't wake me from my slumber on the pool until 4:45 and the party started at 5:00 PM. Their neighbors seemed nice enough, but it was like we had crashed a neighborhood watch meeting. Bob and Vicki showed up about 5:45 and we sat outside while the neighbors all visited inside. We tried a few times to mix with the group, but it just didn't jell. It was an odd mixture of people and Darren even mentioned that there was a division in the groups. Vicki had been in Southern California for two weeks helping her daughter who had just given birth and we wanted to get caught up. Darren and Marissa have a beautiful home that was once owned by the Christian artist, Lincoln Brewster. Lincoln played bass guitar in Journey with Steve Perry and is now the music pastor at our old church, Bayside in Granite Bay.
Well, this is a little short, but it is payday and I have to do payroll to make sure the troops get paid. It is a relief to have the visitors from Home Office gone and the office back to normal. I hope all is well in your world. I will get a few pictures uploaded tonight. Take care. Ciao.
Darla got home on Friday and we met Alicia and her boyfriend, Don, at Paul Martin's American Bistro restaurant in Roseville. Alicia and Darla share the same birthday, although five years apart. It was an interesting visit. Don had stopped at the restaurant earlier in the afternoon and dropped off a cake and two sets of roses for Alicia and Darla. Don and Darla have very similar personalities and both are passionate people and the conversation got a bit heated at times as we discussed the state of health care in America. I had to calm both of them down. It was like a tennis match for Alicia and I watching the two of them go at it. I thought we could have gone to the bar and got a drink together and not been missed. Paul martin is the "P" in P.F. Changs and this is a great restaurant with great food.
Saturday was David's 21st and we took him up to Tahoe for his first "legal" drink and a night of gambling. He was working on some online classes and didn't get finished until almost 4:30 and we left from Roseville picking Darla up in El Dorado Hills at a fundraiser for injured horses where Darla was selling her jewelry. We got up to the hotel (Tahoe Beach and Ski resort) about 6:45 and got checked in. David had to go online and submit his tests and then we went out to the Lakeside Inn and Casino for their legendary Prime Rib dinner. We got David signed up for a players card and both he and Darla got t-shirts, dice, a free drink coupon and a coupon for a free dinner because it was their birthday month. We put our name in for dinner and sat in the bar and David had a margarita. Dinner was great and I splurged with a prime rib as well. David opted for the 20 ounce prime rib and we had lettuce wraps and coconut shrimp appetizers. We finished dinner about 9:30 and ended up sitting and playing nickle video poker until about 1:30 AM. Darla and I paid for David's gambling and with dinner, the room, gambling and breakfast, it was about a $250 outing. We held our own gambling for quite awhile, but were cold late. David hit a number of jackpots with four-of-a-kinds and really seemed to enjoy himself. We went out to Heidi's for breakfast Sunday morning and were back and relaxing on the pool by about 1:30 PM Sunday.
The weather did change last week and we hit 102 on Thursday, 100 Friday, 103 Saturday and 100 yesterday. The heat wave has subsided and today is supposed to top out at 95 degrees and it will be back seasonable by about midweek with mid eighties. The early heat wave really shocked the system. You just haven't prepared for the blast furnace heat and it saps you. I played golf on Saturday and it was 92 degrees when we teed off at 8:30. It seemed even warmer as the water from the ground is evaporating up and the humidity on the course is probably 80 percent. By the back nine, it was up to 98 degrees, but the course had dried out and it was more comfortable. I shot 41+41=82 and took $6 in skins from the group.
We went out to a house party at Darren and Marissa's last night. I had thought it was just the golf guys getting together, but when we got there he had all of his neighbor's over for a barbecue. We got there a little late as Darla didn't wake me from my slumber on the pool until 4:45 and the party started at 5:00 PM. Their neighbors seemed nice enough, but it was like we had crashed a neighborhood watch meeting. Bob and Vicki showed up about 5:45 and we sat outside while the neighbors all visited inside. We tried a few times to mix with the group, but it just didn't jell. It was an odd mixture of people and Darren even mentioned that there was a division in the groups. Vicki had been in Southern California for two weeks helping her daughter who had just given birth and we wanted to get caught up. Darren and Marissa have a beautiful home that was once owned by the Christian artist, Lincoln Brewster. Lincoln played bass guitar in Journey with Steve Perry and is now the music pastor at our old church, Bayside in Granite Bay.
Well, this is a little short, but it is payday and I have to do payroll to make sure the troops get paid. It is a relief to have the visitors from Home Office gone and the office back to normal. I hope all is well in your world. I will get a few pictures uploaded tonight. Take care. Ciao.
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