After working out, I drove to San Francisco to pick up my Domincan friend, Dolorice, who will be celebrating her 85th birthday on January 1st (for the second time, we found out one day when we did the math). We arrived at Nesta's house and helped put up Christmas decorations. This is Dolorice watching Janice (my St. Elizabeth's high school buddy as well as my former principal when I taught) put up Christmas lights on the balcony.
Then, Janice (who was Maid of Honor at our wedding before she joined the Domicans) and Dolorice worked on decorations.
After the decorations were up, we couldn't play Christmas music. Nesta, Janice's mom, was a bit dismayed that the CD player wouldn't work. We ended up going to Fry's to get a new CD player which, when we got it home, didn't work either. We gave up on the CDs and played MP3s.
Nesta, who proclaimed me her first adopted daughter when I was a teenager, makes Burmese style chicken curry.
Driving to evening Mass at St. Clement's Church in Hayward.
Arriving home after Mass with the Christmas lights on at the house.
The end of a curry chicken meal with Nesta's neighbors, Ian and Patty, and Dolorice with empty plates. What's missing is a picture of the plate of cream puffs Patty, a superlative baker, made. They were gone quickly. We ate them.
That was my delightful Saturday. I drove Dolorice home to San Francisco and then myself back home to Redwood City. So, Saturdays while living with Meg and Carol are "free days." Oh, for Janice's 25th jubilee in 2003, she was given a week of a time-share in Hawaii. If you want to see a picture of us at a luau, look at the April 23, 2012 blog posting.
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