Wednesday, June 10: Chillin in Poway. Target Shopping.

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, Maryann and I mellow it 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.