We stayed at Fortuna De Oro RV Resort in Yuma, a nice park with a good dog park for Sasha!
We also visited the Yuma County Fair while we were there. On the first day of the fair, no admission was charged, so we had to go!
A walk around the fairgrounds, a cold drink, a visit to the animal barns, and a few happy minutes watching Guido do magic tricks just about completed the fair. We did get reacquainted with a lady who sells homemade hot sauces. Hot Mama Bella has an online presence, so check it out if you like spicy/hot condiments. She has a unique Jicama based approach to hot sauces, and has now added some Jalapeño and Habanero combinations with fruit and berries that is extraordinary. We met her and bought some things a few years ago, and it was great to see that she's still going for it! She contributes a percentage of her profits to local charities in honor of her mother...Bella.
One of the more unique offerings of the Yuma County Fair was a display of dressed animal carcasses. While somewhat interesting to see what a pig looks like without it's clothes on, we noticed that there weren't very many people around!
Then, back in Cali!
Our time at home has been very relaxing and enjoyable. It's been about two months now, and we've managed to stay busy, but not crazy busy! We had an enjoyable day trip to the San Joaquin delta area just south of Sacramento, where our good friend Ed grew up. He took us to the old Chinese community of Locke, where he used to go after school.
100% Chinese originally, the town began to become more diversified after the turn of the Twentieth Century. The last name of this Italian restauranteur is long lost to folklore, but his establishment lives on!
While we didn't eat at Al's, we had to go in to inspect the famous ceiling. Legend has it that the dollar bills stuck to the ceiling were placed there by patrons who balanced a thumbtack and a dollar bill on a silver dollar and flipped it toward the ceiling. Don't quite know how the FFA jacket got there.....
On one wall, this stuffed Pike bears witness to the huge fish in the Sacramento River Delta region!
Ed showed us the elementary school that he attended, the house he grew up in, and several places on the river where he had summer jobs. Thanks for a nice day, Ed and Rosemary!
Donna bough a new dune buggy this last spring to replace the older one that was about to fall apart, so she and her best friend Suzi needed to go "over the hill" into western Nevada to have a day in the dirt. Thankfully, Donna's new red buggy ran fine! Those are the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains in the background.
On June 10, our family gathered for a celebration of my XX'nd birthday! We enjoyed a great bicycle ride around Lake Natoma and then had a great lunch with TriTip sandwiches, pasta salad, and all the fixings! Thank you, fam, for the grand day!
So now we arrive at the third week of June.....Our middle grand-daughter graduates from high school tomorrow, June 17th, an event we have been anticipating for some time! Hanna is a lovely girl who has done well in school and is already signed up for college in the fall. She has made us very proud!
We will soon leave NorCal for points North. Canada is celebrating it's 150th birthday this year, and we want to help celebrate! It will be a short trip through the southwestern provinces, but enjoyable nevertheless. We're looking forward to it! We hope to be back in the States in time for the solar eclipse in August, another bucket list thing!
Check in with us from time to time. We'll post some of the sights we see and things we do and food we eat!
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