Goodbye to the Fairmont for the day as we head for San Jose and beyond….
Peter driving the 300 ZX
Entering Stanford, Palo Alto, California
Stanford
Peter at Stanford
Peter with the Rodin sculptures.
Rodin sculptures at Stanford.
Peter and me.
Peter at Stanford.
Me.
Another amazing day. Just returned from supper in a little city called Redwood. We ate at a super-authentic Mexican restaurant called Amelia’s. Everyone spoke Spanish, our waitress no English. It was Divine, and well worth the hour or so confusing drive it took to find the place. We tried an Elsalvadorian Papusa: a thick tortilla, homemade on the spot, cooked with the filling (cheese and chicken) inside. It was delicious. I’d looked it up on the computers at the Stanford library. Yes, we stopped at Palo Alto and toured a bit of Stanford. The campus was beautiful, though, when touring inside the library, with a lovely reading room, I felt relieved for some reason, that I was a tourist and not a prospective student. It brought back all those past, (I thought long buried) feelings of new-student, alienating, confusing blues.
We shopped all day at the outlets in Gilroy. Peter bought a gorgeous suit and three sport coats from Ralph Lauren. He is turning into quit the fashionisto. His wardrobe expenses far exceed mine! The best finds for me were at Banana Republic, 60% off all my purchases. I also really like MaxStudio–cute dresses. And Converse runners were a steal at the Converse store. SO much cheaper than in Canada: $15 vs $60. Peter and I each purchased a pair of Clark’s shoes too. They were a steal as well: $40 vs $140 Canadian for mine.
Today Peter starts his conference and we attend Wicked tonight. Although, with the miles and miles of heavy duty climbing and walking we do, I must wear my running shoes with every outfit!
And the best tidbit, for Peter, is that we rented a new black convertable Nissian 350 ZX to cruise down to San Jose. The car is a modern version of Peter’s red rocket. The 300 ZX he drove when were a young couple.
Natalie
Looks like you’re having a great trip. I hope you enjoy Wicked!
theresa_hart
I think Pete is where he belongs – zooming along in Ralph attire to Stanford in his 300ZX. Can’t get much more Peter than that. And what is this ‘when we were a young couple’ – my god how much younger do you want to get? How about when our love was fresh and we were naive and unemcumbered. Now our love is mature, we are wiser and we have 3 huge reasons for living!
Melissa Mix Hart
Yes, I was struggling to find the right term to describe us at the time of the ZX: barely post-pubescent & shacked up–that was my 2nd choice. But I I’ll go with yours!