California.....

The view at night from our Californian hosts and good friends Terri ,Brent and family. I have known Terri for about 25 years now when I met her, Kristi and Larry on my last trip here.
We were really spoilt rotten whilst staying here and really appreciated everything that was done for us and the way we were looked after.........we had a great party thrown last sunday for us and had a ball.

Just to the right of the pool in this picture, we had our own self contained guest house which was absolute luxury for us, especially after all the camping we have been doing.........on top of that there were the rides in the very expensive, and powerful toys of which I will post a few pics of very soon.

Wendy here, while Mal has lunch. Terri, Brent & family live in Poway, just near Escondido, southern California. It is a desert like environment but well watered gardens and public areas.
It is a comfortable area and close to beautiful beaches like Carlsbad, Luecadia, Encinitas and Del Mar in case any of you want to look it up. These are all surfing beaches so Mal was pretty pleased. The pool at Terri and Brent's had a jacuizzi (spa in our language) and the wet edge looked as though it was falling off into the canyon. It also had a slide into the pool and waterfall that could be jumped off. Terri and Brent had 3 great kids. Chase (14 year old boy). Samara and I went to a high school American Football Game which was very interesting. They laughed when I called in "footy", Riley (10 year old girl) who became good friends with Samara as she does gymnastics, Nash (5 year old) who is a "cute as heck" and a chatterbox.

It's Mal back again after lunch, but instead of ranting on more on this pic, I'll blog up another one and go on that.