As our busy summer and fall has come to an end, we were able to slip away for a few days and visit our family and friends in California.  It was a lovely trip and we had a wonderful time seeing our family and as many friends as we could.  We found all well and that made us happy.  We spent our first three nights in Moss Beach California visiting Michael’s life long friend and his family.  They we very gracious hosts.  We had a relaxing time and ate as much seafood as we could!  I had longed for some Dungeness crab and fresh fish and chips for the past year and ate my fill on the pacific coast.  Mike and I ventured out into San Francisco and visited the De Young Museum where we say the King Tut exhibit, if you get a chance this is a "must not miss" experience).  We also took a walk through one of our favorite spots the SF Japanese Gardens in the park.
On Halloween we headed north to Chico and spent a lovely day having lunch with Mikes family and the rest of the day with mine carving pumpkins, making caramel apples and helping make my granddaughter up as a vampire for trick and treating.  The next day we spent the afternoon wine tasting at Vino 100 with a large group of our family and friends then dinner at La Hacienda in celebration of Mike's 50th BD.  We are very blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives!  The rest of our quick trip was we enjoyed spending time with our family then it was back home to  NY.  The six days away did us both good.  We returned home just a few leaves left on the trees and snowflakes the next morning.  Winter is on the way.  Today it is suppose to get back up into the 60s and hold there for the next few days. But, we will do the remainder of items on our to-do list in preparation for the snow...it will come. 
As always we have had an exciting busy season.  We are fortunate to meet so many wonderful people and hear all about them and their experiences.  Just last night we had a three couples staying with us.  One couple had traveled all over the world.  They were visiting from Canada and just wanted to see the many sites around the Finger Lakes.  Another couple have bought a house here in Newark.  While waiting for it to close they are visiting friends.  Mike and Petra stayed at Vintage Gardens as part of their journey walking from Paso Robles California to Jerusalem (once they get to NYC they will fly across the great pond as they put it). See their website at  http://www.walkingeast.com. 
Being a B&B owner is never boring!  We can't wait to meet our next guests!