{"id":66049,"date":"2022-12-27T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66049"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:57:29","slug":"66049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66049","title":{"rendered":"Off And Running To Long Beach & Riverside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact:\u00a0 \u00a0Like most authors, Clement Clarke Moore was his own harshest critic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The intellectual professor wrote “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” for his kids, but did not publish it under his own name until 21 years had passed at the insistence of his then-grown children.\u00a0 He essentially was the last person to admit writing it.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see all of today’s pictures and stories here!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

We were up at 5:30 AM to get ready for a trip to Long Beach to have my stitches removed.\u00a0 We arrived early and were out of the office at 8:15 AM. Mary’s doctor’s appointment was canceled, so we went to Old Ranch and had breakfast!<\/p>\n

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We sat at the picture window and saw the crazy golfers head out.<\/p><\/div>\n

I guess we looked so happy together that our waitress suggested we stand by the tree!\u00a0 We did, and the picture came out like we felt happy!<\/p>\n

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Our waitress could not resist getting a picture of us!<\/p><\/div>\n

We headed home, policed the house and yard for the expected rain storm, and then went to Robin’s home for a visit before going to the\u00a0 Mission Inn in Riverside.<\/p>\n

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Robin was so excited when she got her present from Colleen!<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob returned from work at about 3:30 PM, and we headed to Riverside with Nick. It’s our tradition to have dinner and walk around the “mall” next to the Inn.<\/p>\n

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We arrived right on time!<\/p><\/div>\n

We selected our wine, and Mary suggested we taste two of them.\u00a0 Robin took a swig and gave us her unbridled opinion!\u00a0 As Mom once said, “Pour it back in the horse!”<\/p>\n

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Robin had a strong opinion on the house chardonnay!<\/p><\/div>\n

When Mary spotted the vineyard being in Medford, Oregon, that was it!\u00a0 We shared a bottle of Medford wine during dinner.<\/p>\n

Mary could not decide between filet mignon or rack of lamb, and I made it easy; we ordered both and shared them.\u00a0 The food was excellent, and the service was OK, considering the place was loaded with people!<\/p>\n

The people at the next table had four little kids, and I thought, “Oh no, screamers!” They were so well behaved I got up, tapped one of the dad’s on the shoulder, and told them how well behaved the kids were!\u00a0 He was proud and thanked us for saying such nice things.\u00a0 We tried to buy the kids ice cream, but the freezer for ice cream was on the fritz, and they were out!<\/p>\n

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Mary picked out a nice Oregon chardonnay from her hometown of Medford!<\/p><\/div>\n

As we departed the restaurant, a lovely lady asked if we wanted our picture taken.\u00a0 I thought we would surely have our feet and heads cut off, but amazingly, the picture was quite nice!!<\/p>\n

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After dinner photos!<\/p><\/div>\n

We meandered to the antique store and shopped for quite a while, seeking treasures!<\/p>\n

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Finding treasures is hard work!<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob and Santa had a small altercation, and I think Bob is now on the naughty list for next year!<\/p>\n

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Next year Bob will not try and tickle Sants’s tummy!<\/p><\/div>\n

It was beginning to rain, so we cut our visit short and headed to the car via the inn lobby!<\/p>\n

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Millions of lights on the Inn.<\/p><\/div>\n

We went home via the Duda’s.\u00a0 The rain got pretty hard, but we made it just fine.\u00a0 After getting home, the real storm hit, and we got a good amount of rain before going to bed.\u00a0 We did stay up and watched a movie.<\/p>\n

You can see all of today’s pictures and stories here!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fact:\u00a0 \u00a0Like most authors, Clement Clarke Moore was his own harshest critic.\u00a0\u00a0The intellectual professor wrote “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” for his kids, but did not publish it under his own name until 21 years had passed at the insistence … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,227,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-dining-out","category-family","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66365,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66049\/revisions\/66365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}