We saw a free afternoon on Friday, February 9th, our 39th wedding anniversary, and made plans to make a great escape for an afternoon date experience and were very anxious and hopeful that would happen.
As we have observed since arriving here, though, we have noticed that when we have some free time in our schedule it soon becomes evident of why we have it. It is usually to take care of some problem that comes up. This was no exception.
By the time Glen finished up with the issues that kept arising and finished meeting with the missionaries requesting an interview, it was later in the afternoon. We decided to still make a dash for it and arrived at the Safari Park with a mere 1 hour and 10 minutes before closing time.
That was exactly 20 minutes less than we had the other time we went there. Oh well! We made the best of the situation. We walked around a different part of the park that we hadn't seen before.
We got a little exercise. We enjoyed nature. We relaxed. We had a nice dinner on our way home. It was a great date night.
But honestly, who even needs to go to the zoo to enjoy nature. We have beauty all around us. Right in our own back yard as I noticed these flowers blooming.
Speaking of nature--when we were near a shopping area where there is a huge strip of stores covering what seems like a whole block, I got the biggest kick out of seeing all these birds perched on the Petco store roof and no other bird atop any other store. It just really tickled my funny bone.
February is the love month for us with both our anniversary and Valentine's day. This cute valentine was made by our grandchildren at FHE using celery. We loved it.
The stake presidency in Temecula fixes a breakfast for all the missionaries in their zone at the beginning of every transfer. That is every 6 weeks. They are so wonderful and they love missionary work.
The breakfast this time was hosted by President Ham. I loved this message hanging on their wall.
President Downing, President Ham and President Nilsen were cooking out on the back patio in a big rain storm.
There had been a message given by President Ham and the zone leaders before breakfast. After breakfast President Ham invited us into his front living room where he opened his front door and asked the missionaries to sing "Called to Serve" loud enough for his neighbors to hear. That's one way to do missionary work!
It was a beautiful experience and well worth the getting up early and the hour drive to get there.
We ended up staying in Temecula for a while as there were two separate baptisms we went to that day. We were loving the bursts of yellow and orange flowers all along the freeway.
The patches of flowers were so bright they were almost florescent in the sunlight. So beautiful!!
The next day we were back up in Temecula making a delivery to a missionary and attending church while we were there. It was a sad thought when I realized partway through the morning that neither one of us had thought to put the meat in the oven before we left for the day.
I had prepared it and put it in the roasting pan in the refrigerator and that is as far as it made it. Let's just say that's one way to break out of the weekly routine of meat, mashed potatoes and carrots for Sunday dinner.
Preparation day found us getting our car washed and vacuumed and the inside windows all cleaned so we would pass inspection the next day at at zone conference. Alas! We netted a 9.9 because we had two missing tire caps.
AHHHH! The elusive 10 is still dangling out there for us to try to achieve.
These purple flowers are now in bloom all around the neighborhoods and along the freeway.
I LOVE them!! I LOVE the beauty everywhere you look!! I LOVE being in southern California!!
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