Highlights: It's been a pleasant day. A 'vacation' sort of day. Lauren arrived by train this am for a brief visit. We had breakfast at Los Gatos Cafe with Jen. Tommy was engaged in other tasks this morning but joined us for Aqui dinner. Jen, Lauren and I went to Pacifica via Page Mill and Alpine. It was a beautiful drive. Just stunning forests and valleys and vistas. We also stumbled across a place called "Forever Bloom" farm and got some snacks and flowers. Same with Hurley Farms in Pescadero for goat cheese. A few very interesting 'synchronicity' moments occured, too. One was this morning, while brushing my teeth I envisioned my recently ordered glasses being ready for pickup today so Lauren could see them… which was aggressively quick considering they were ordered only 6 days ago. But this happened - they called during our drive today and I picked them up before dinner. Another event was, once in Pacifica, I said that if we drove past gorilla BBQ I'd have to stop. I checked online and was disappointed that they were only open Sat and Sun 12-5pm. Yet as we drove by, it was OPEN! And the parking lot was empty. It turns out this was a 'soft' open and the 1st Friday they're open. The last time we were here was also not-intentional, just happened to be there, 10/03/20, with a massive line too. We didn't know it until later that week that it was their "re-opening" day post pandemic. We stumbled across that and then this instance today. Karma? Fate? We wrapped up the day after Aqui dinner by playing Skipbo and listening to the Greatest Showman and Hamilton. It's been a Lauren-centric day. I'm grateful for all of it.
