Thursday, June 11: Relaxing @ Poway

After a wonderful sleep, we got up around 10:30 AM. We Jeson the idea of going to the club because we were very much sleepy and we decided we’d eat breakfast and take our time. We had cereal and some coffee. I also had a juicy as well. Quite frankly, the coffee didn’t taste great so we just kind of drank it. That was about it. After that, we just met around the house and relax. I got this email from enterprise Rent-A-Car from a “management trainee“ who wrote this really formal letter stating that I needed a live credit card, and a drivers license with no restrictions. That was the first time I ever heard of such a thing before. A drivers license for that restrictions. So I called Capitol One and got an email verifying that I have coverage. It’s one of the better benefits of the Capitol One card that I have called the savior card. Anyway, it’s now 12:58 PM and we’re gonna go out to get some Greek lunch while House also go to DMV and get some stuff done. Oh yes, Becky was here loading her stuff into the pods storage thing in the middle of Alice’s driveway. She filled it up and they’re Going come by sometime between 7 AM tomorrow and 4 PM tomorrow. Yes that’s typical u-Haul bullshit. It’s now 1:25 PM. We’re sitting inside for a moment before going to walk back to our favorite happen in place target which has a Starbucks and delicious bars that Mary discovered when we were in a hurry to buy stuff and towels. Alice has been working all day. We just heard from our friend Meghen, who has been to Alaska and Takena. She gave us some tips of some stores to go to in Takena, which is a cute little small town will be hitting after we leave Anchorage. Will be staying there for four days. We’re sitting here drinking the delicious iced coffee and we have the one table and we’re sitting here. 

Wednesday, June 10: Target Shopping, YMCA, & Mexican Dinner

Hello boys and girls Mary and I are hanging out in Poway. We got up slowly very slowly then she got out of the house around 10:15 AM Pacific daylight time. We are both kind of jetlagged and Alice was understanding of that and is just letting us do our own thing and wake up slowly. I got to see Becky and her old car that she actually had shipped from Hawaii. It’s a 2013 Corolla. Anyhow, Mary and I were thinking of walking to the target getting some coffee doing a little bit shopping. Then we realized Mary forgot her phone and realized maybe we should just drive over there drive and we did that we drove to the target. Man oh man, we went to the Starbucks there and they had one table so we immediately seized on it as soon as we could because that’s the only table in the whole place. Later on someone told me that they removed all the tables due to Covid and use the remaining seating spaces where to put orders and they’re still keeping it up and we’re already in 2026 in the midpoint of 2026. Anyhow, we indulge in some delicious breakfast Muffins breakfast sandwich sandwiches with English muffins and then started shopping and that was an experience. That store is being ripped apart towards the back end of the store. All the drinks are all over the place and you have construction going on. We need to keep asking employees where stuff was I thought even indulging in shopping at Amazon. Anyhow, we got things that we actually needed. Mary found her a portable bag she could use for packing and she’s looking at knee braces and comparing suitcases. Anyhow, we finally finished shopping around 2 PM and we ordered another set of iced coffees and headed back to Alice’s place in Poway. I’m now sitting in the back just collecting some sun because it’s a beautiful day and Alaska will not look like this believe me. It’s mostly cloudy and cooler. That’s what we saw on the weather forecast that we looked at yesterday Alice made final plans to rent the car for Long Beach Island and Maryann. I owe $227 which is a lot better than the $450 that Hertz tried to charge. They wanted to rip off Alice like they tried to rip us off with their $3700 price tag for two weeks. We had to go to Enterprise just like she did. I ended up doing my own thing. Well, after you get back from target, Mary &  I mellowed out to the max. I sat outside in the sun. Mary took a nap and I had some snacks. Then we went to the YMCA and did a little bit of swimming in the sauna, which was really relaxing. Then straight from there we went to a place called Ruby’s, which was a really good little Mexican restaurant. That was fun. Becky and Mimi joined us for the dinner which was fun.