Sunday, October 12, Day 40 - In LAToday started out sunny and cool (so, what's new for southern CA?). Last night, we where guests at Neal and Cindy Goldstein's home, where we were treated to home-made pizza. In the above picture, you can see Cindy making the dough. See the web albun for additional pictures of our pizza feast.
This morning, we attended the 8AM Mass at Corpus Christi Parish in Santa Monica. We were invited to present the "gifts" at the Mass, which we were honored to accept. The Mass was attended by mostly "silver tops", which is what we are used to as parishioners at St. Margaret's in Beverly. However, the cantor at this Mass was quite an exceptional young man, vibrant, enthusiastic, with a great voice - we guessed that he was in his early 20's.
Later, after Mass and breakfast, we moved the motor home down to Dockweiler State Beach RV Park, in Playa Del Rey. We are on the beach, on a level, paved site. The park is relatively quiet, since most of the guests left today (this place is PACKED on the weekends). After getting settled here, we met Chad and Lauren and headed to Lauren's grandparent's home for dinner.
This is a picture of Lauren's grandparents, Dick and Sally Greenberg, our hosts this afternoon and evening. I cannot begin to describe the warm welcome we received when we arrived. Sally and Dick are wonderful hosts and very warm, loving people. We enjoyed their company very much. In addition, we met many other interesting people, friends of Dick and Sally, who were equally warm and friendly. See the web album for pictures of everyone at the dinner party. My most unforgettable moment today came while talking to Dick Greenberg, Lauren's grandfather, who told me how much he and Sally liked Chad, and were hoping that the relationship between Chad and Lauren would flourish. Lauren's grandparents made us feel so welcome in their home that we felt like family, and you all know how much family means to us both! Since we arrived in LA, we have been treated like family by Cindy and Neal, and now by Cindy's parents, Dick and Sally Greenberg. We certainly feel like we have known everyone out here forever, because they have made us feel AT HOME! We are going to have a hard time leaving this place, not only because of the weather, but also because of the "family" we have here. And most importantly because of the time we have had to spend with Chad.
Tomorrow, we will probably just spend most of the day here chilling on the beach. At some point, we hope to have Chad, Lauren, Cindy and Neal here for dinner, so be sure to tune in tomorrow for details.
Here's the link to today's web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/TheTripInLADay40?authkey=rzTT6mY2b5Q#
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