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<\/a>Chapter One Santa Ana<\/p><\/div>\n
Someone was quite happy with her meal and they had several selections for Sue to try!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Sue tried the Mexican breakfast dish<\/p><\/div>\n
Paul loved the small iron skillet as everything stayed pretty warm!\u00a0 The Kim-chi was excellent! Paul enjoys Korean food and at an upscale restaurant, so does Sue.\u00a0 The Korean BBQ’s just do not have a lot to select from for a vegetarian!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Paul did the Korean Plate… Excellent!!<\/p><\/div>\n
Paul went off-diet and shared a dessert with Sue… Just celebrating 211 pounds!\u00a0 PAul is half-way to his goal! It’s a fight but he is going to win!<\/p>\n
To The Bowers Museum we go.\u00a0\u00a0 We had not been there this year, amazing!\u00a0 In our heads, we tnought we went every three months but in truth, it was almost 18 months since our last visit?<\/p>\n
We heard about the latest exhibition dealing with pictures from the Schackelford Expedition or more correctly the “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914\u201317)”.\u00a0 As we began the read the diaries and see the pictures, it was chilling! It was a day when men were men, not the snowflakes of this time!<\/p>\n
Did You Know: The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914\u201317), also known as the Endurance Expedition, is considered the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. After the conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton’s words, the “one great main object of Antarctic journeyings”. The expedition failed to accomplish this objective, but became recognized instead as an epic feat of endurance.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Endurance became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea before reaching Vahsel Bay, and drifted northward, held in the pack ice, throughout the Antarctic winter of 1915. Eventually the ship was crushed and sunk, stranding its 28-man complement on the ice. After months spent in makeshift camps as the ice continued its northwards drift, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited Elephant Island. Shackleton and five others then made an 800-mile (1,287 km) open-boat journey in the James Caird to reach South Georgia. From there, Shackleton was eventually able to mount a rescue of the men waiting on Elephant Island and bring them home without loss of life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Can you imagine your ride getting crushed before your eyes? Ground up to dust!<\/p><\/div>\n We just read the “day by day” entries in the logs, saw the amazing pictures taken over 100 years ago and tried to image how these people felt isolated 800 miles from civilization for a year.\u00a0 Then their last hope depended upon five people making an 800 mile trip across the violent antarctic ocean in an open life boat! OMG!<\/p>\n We departed Bowers and went to Old Ranch to meat up with friends for Happy Hour.\u00a0 A glass of wine later and an hour of catching up, we headed home to”freshen up” and get ready to go dancing.<\/p>\n Hello Garden Grove Elks!\u00a0 We met up with the Branders, Wil and Iris, Margot and Pat plus the Woolstons.\u00a0 We danced for a while and shared “funnies”.\u00a0 Bob and Donna were n ot here as Bob has a colonoscopy procedure on Saturday morning.\u00a0 Paul, bless his little pointed head, sent Bob colonoscopy pictures every half-hour on the hour until it was time to go home.\u00a0 It was the work of the devil!<\/p>\n Paul’s favorite this evening<\/p><\/div>\n After a nice meal, we headed home and watched the new Hawaii-5O plus two “Friends” and then crashed.\u00a0 What a busy day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We decided to go to Chapter One for lunch as it is right next to the Bowers Museum (OK, maybe two miles away). It’s a bit of an eclectic place but the food and\u00a0 service was great! It is located … Continue reading <\/a><\/a>