We didn't get to Paradise too late so we were able to meet up with Papa and Jean and have dinner at the Casa de Paradiso. They had excellent Mexican food. Jimmy said it's now his second favorite mexican restaurant he's found. And coming from La Puente that means a lot! Mom and Eddie stayed with Papa and Jean but because Emily still wakes up a couple of times a night we decided it was better if we stayed in a hotel. The next morning we met up for breakfast at the local diner. They serve these large pancakes that are part pancake and part crepe. Very yummy!! After breakfast we went to the Festival of Trees where Emily met Santa for the first time!
She did pretty well and only fussed for a few moments until Santa was able to get her to settle. (She must know how this Santa-thing works already!) Jimmy fell in love with these handcrafted grilling hooks that he ended up buying two of, he also bidded on a couple more of these in the raffle and won those as well. Then we headed to the Train museum and took a look around. Papa and Jean are so cute together that while they were walking to the museum I had to take this shot.
Papa and Jean still going strong. Jimmy and I laughed because my 88 year old grandfather is a better driver then both of our moms!
Our next stop was the Gold Nugget Museum. Every year growing up my mother, during the summer, would ship me up north to stay with my Grandparents. My Mama and Papa were docents at the Gold Nugget Museum (http://www.goldnuggetmuseum.com/)so I pretty much grew up in there. It was great to see it again and all the changes they've done to it over the years. Jimmy was really impressed with everything that the museum has.
Our last must see was Mama and Papa's old house. After Mama died Papa sold it and moved in with Jean not terribly long afterwards. Jean and Papa have been living together for almost 13 years as legal domestic partners and just last month they finally decided to get married. There wasn't a ceremony really, they just went down to the court house. They finally decided it was time after some friends of theirs that also weren't married had issues when going in to a retirement community. The community wouldn't let their friends stay in the same room because even though they were also domestic partners they weren't married. I guess Papa and Jean decided it was time to finally tie the knot so when they decided to move to a community they won't hit the same road block.
We had a lovely dinner at a chowder house up there then Jimmy and I went back to the hotel for the night. Too much going on all that day I think was too much for Emily. She was really fussy during dinner. It was also good for us because we would be leaving the next day on Sunday.
On Sunday we picked up Mom and Eddie and after some breakfast muffins with Papa and Jean we were off back down to southern California. It's a 9 hour drive each way. And although Emily is only 6 weeks old she did fantastic! Jimmy couldn't believe how much fun he had and now we are talking about trying to go up every year. It would be great so that Emily could get to know her Great-Grand Parents, not everybody gets to meet theirs.
