Off To Riverside For Dinner At The Mission Inn!
This year we are going early so avoid the terrible traffic so we will meet at Robin's home around 2:30 pm and then mosey down to the Mission Inn and so some street walking (oops, walking up and down the streets) to visit the shops and especially the "junk stores" where treasures are found!
The mouse tree looked amazing.
Years of collectibles are on this tree.
The family tree is on the front room.
Space Shuttle, yeah!
Lunar landing 1969.
Yeah ELVIS!!
The moose glasses are always a kick!!
We visited her trees; amazing works of art!!
The sun was getting low in the western sky!
The first 3-D TV!
I almost broke the mirror!!!
This is really a stick up!!
Zachary and Becca would like this!!
A shopping she will go... A shopping she will go!
The shop was full of goodies!
Which one is Santa??
Love that jacket Bob!!!
Great smile!
Cute couple!!!
The reflection from a silver ball on the tree!
It's hard to focus and push while trying to keep up and smile!
It worked!
The upper left-hand corner reveals the shape of the ball!
Oh My! Such a cold heart!!
The stores were decorated for the season!
The life-size dolls are in place.
Baath Humbug??
Did You Know? - A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest. The term was first described in 1751 as student slang, and recorded in 1840 as a "nautical phrase". It is now also often used as an exclamation to describe something as hypocritical nonsense or gibberish.
I sent him my list early this year!!
I thought of Joe and the boys!!
Piggy-Winkels??? That sounds like a Humbug!
Did You Know? -The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905.
Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman (laundress) who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A child named Lucie happens upon the cottage and stays for tea.
The two deliver freshly laundered clothing to the animals and birds in the neighbourhood. Potter thought the book would be best enjoyed by girls, and, like most girls' books of the period, it is set indoors with a focus on housework.
Potter's pet hedgehog, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle and Kitty MacDonald, a Scottish washerwoman, were the inspirations for the eponymous heroine. Lucie Carr, a child friend of Potter's, was the model for the fictional Lucie.
Potter's Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny make cameo appearances in the illustrations. The Newlands Valley and the surrounding fells are the sources for the backgrounds in the illustrations.
Mrs. Tiggy-winkle has been described as one of Potter's most positive creations. Although Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is set in an identifiable place and time period, the tale is mythologized by reaching back to an age when household chores were performed manually and without the aid of modern mechanical inventions.
The simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life.
Amazing, image caught without people going in and out.
A happy shopper!
"I present....."
Ready to go!
We are on our way to dinner.
Did You Know? - In 1992, Duane Roberts purchased the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa and restored many of the property's architectural Spanish Mission-style features and undertaking modernization of the hotel's facilities. His wife, Kelly, manages the hotel. Annual events include the Festival of Lights, Feste dell'Amore and the Pumpkin Stroll.
This year the street was blocked off, yeah!!!
Now we can get to the Inn easily.
The bark on this tree was a bright red!!
Genuine Japanese Wago Beef for the old man! The stone was still several hundred degrees and I finished cooking the steak on the stone.
Robin did the Ribeye.
Lot's of giggling going on tis evening. Bob and Dru had a great time!
Friends for almost 30 years!
Just kidding!!
The steak is ready, so am I.
Yummy!
Did You Know? - Wagyu (Japanese: 和牛, Hepburn: wagyū, lit. 'Japanese cattle') is the collective name for the four principal Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle originate from early twentieth-century cross-breeding between native Japanese cattle and imported stock, mostly from Europe.
Wagyu beef is among the most expensive meats in the world. It features marbling, meaning that streaks of fat exist within the red meat that make it tender and moist, while adding flavor. Wagyu beef is often known by different names depending on its place of origin.
In several Japanese prefectures, Wagyu beef is shipped with an area name; examples include Matsusaka beef, Kobe beef from the Tajima cattle, Yonezawa beef and Ōmi beef. In recent years, Wagyu beef has increased in fat percentage due to a decrease in grazing and an increase in the use of feed, resulting in larger, fattier cattle
Dining was wonderful, not a lot of noise and lots of room between tables.
Bob demonstrates how he butters his bread without cutting himself.
Too much fun? I think not!
Having a super time!
We were put in the corner, on purpose perhaps!
We were dressed for the season!
Dinner is over now we have to go home!!
