God Bless Forever Friends!

Such a blessing to connect with one of Ernie’s forever friends from high school, college, and beyond. Before leaving L.A., Paul Morrison, talented actor, great friend, and newly retired city surveyor showed the family an insider view of Beverly Hills and beyond. A beautiful completion to a whirlwind visit. We will be back! We love you Los Angeles.

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#foreverfriendsarethebest

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#pickingupwheretheyleftoff

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A day in Hollywood…

The kids wanted to see the sights so they had lunch with Michael Leon Wooley, (Louis the Alligator in “The Princess and the Frog”, “AJ and the Queen” and more), saw the stars on Hollywood Blvd. at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, went up to see the Hollywood sign, took a personal night tour by the Beverly Hills mansions on the hill, and had a very late meal with Stephen and Lynn who have gone out of their way to make this visit great for my kids. What a day! What a city! Truly film central I’m every sense of the word. If you are here in L.A. and we didn’t get to connect, forgive me. We have to come back when we have more time (and no dental work).

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#hollywoodinallitsglory

#abigdayallthewayaround

Thought we would share a little of the “excitement” in our drive down the mountain on our way to L.A. today. We prayed at the top and cheered at the bottom. I could do without any more of that kind of excitement on this trip.

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#thankinggodforsafetravels

#thiswascrazy

#grateful4ourtransmission

MY HUSBAND MAKING ME LAUGH and my beautiful view lying outside on an air mattress in the shade after our Hipcamping host’s electricity at the top of this mountain went out, and he left yesterday for the weekend. We used our own generator till it shut down at half a tank of gas. We are packing up to go back to civilization. Ernie said he was going to send me back to St.Louis like they did with the old wagon trains heading west. “Send the weak back to St. Louis”

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#myhusbandisfunny

#iamaweenie

#itisstillfun

#iloveitall

#lifeontheroad

I am calling today a Joyous God Stop.

Today was a little piece of heaven. It was as if God said “Okay you guys, time to stop moving forward, rest, play, and just enjoy. You can’t move on to the next thing until you take some time to relax.” We enjoyed a beautiful morning in our private mountain top retreat, and then our host told us about a special Dog Beach at Huntington Beach, CA. OMG! Our pups were in heaven! It is a huge, clean, beautiful beach where Great Danes play with tiny weiner dogs and they all run free. I have never seen my dogs play like this, or seen so many dogs playing free together. Skylar and Riley jumped in the waves, chased balls, and made a lot of new friends. It was like a giant dog beach party! Elijah was thrilled to finally go swimming in the Pacific Ocean. From the Atlantic to the Pacific,! This day was magical indeed.

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#jumpingthewaves

#alittlepieceofheaven