heritage square
Thursday, April 3, 2014, 06:00 PM
Breakfast was pancakes and sausages. We went out onto the pier to see the launch but didn't see anything. I saw a corkscrew vapor trail but nothing else. We got on the bus at 9:00 and went to a family strawberry farm. He and his father farm 117 acres of strawberries. We learned about planting, picking and prep during the non harvest time. This was pretty fascinating. Next stop was a family organic farm and was not my favorite. he owner was very political about ag regulations and locally grown, etc. The farm was fine, we smelled the cinnamon they were using for weed control which was a nice smell. Looked at the animals then headed to lunch. We had lunch in Heritage Square. Lunch was a buffet of chicken, veggies and rice. After lunch we did a walking tour of the houses there and how they got to be there. The houses are beautiful but incredibly expensive queen Anns and craftsmen style homes. One home cost 1 million dollars to move and then another million to upgrade it. Next stop was the Food Share food bank where we got an interesting tour. At the conclusion we wrote thank you letters to partner agencies for their help. We were given 3 letters to write but only wrote 2 letters including addressing the envelopes since we were out of time. Libbie has a bad cold today,hope I don't get it. Dinner tonight was a demo of making strawberry vinaigrette which we had on our salad and a wine tasting. We had generous pours of Lehman Shiraz-Cabernet blend which I liked very much. I had many glasses of this with salmon over potatoes with onions and mixed veggies. I cleaned my plate. Desert was a chocolate mousse over a cake-cookie base. This was all decadent. We had a nice time with Jill & Larry and our fellow table mates. What a fun evening although I drank too much.
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