We went out to Woodys for breakfast with Christa's cousins. I'm not a big omelet eater so I had a bagel and cream cheese. It was a nice meal I certainly didn't need. Her cousins are huge people and eat all those cholesterol laden plates of food. Uggh. We left HB at 10:20 and sailed up the freeway without any problems. Called Barb around 11 and told her we were approaching the Ronald Reagan. Simi Valley is beautiful, much nicer than the HB area. Barb has a lovely home. We looked at her plants and plantings then went out to lunch at a Thai place. They treated and we had ample time to chat without the constraints of the convention. They gave us directions to take a route through farm country which we did and enjoyed the fields and cold frames lining the highway. IT was a worthwhile drive instead of the freeway. Made it to our hotel on the beach and were very surprised to find our Rose Bowl leaders, Jill and Larry Fine were the leaders for the farm tour. Nice. Our room is on the 11th floor overlooking the pier looking South. Quite nice but the facility is very old and could use a refurb. Our dinner was a meet and greet and then a chicken and rice dinner with salad greens and pear torte for dessert. Very adequate. We went to bed tonight pretty tired.