Sunny Sacramento

I had two very chilled out days in Palm Springs on Monday and Tuesday. It was a nice change to sit in front of a television and watch hours and hours of my favourite programs (CSI, Law and Order, NCIS – yes, I am sad ;-) !

On Wednesday morning, I packed my bags, said my goodbyes to Christopher, Srinu, Harry the dog and Pudding the cat and I headed to Palm Springs Airport. To my delight, there was free Wi-Fi there! I arrived in Sacramento Airport at about 1.30pm. I am staying in Sacramento with my friend Shannen (we used to work together a few years ago) but she had to work in Portland today and she wasn’t getting back until 10.30pm tonight. However, her daughter, Kelly, offered to pick me up from the airport at about 5pm so I settled down to wait for her. Luckily, Sacramento Airport also has free Wi-Fi so I was happy to play on the internet and read my book while I waited.

Kelly picked me up at about 5.30pm and took me to Shannen’s house. Shannen lives about 45 mins from the airport is a town just outside Sacramento called Lincoln and she has a beautiful house. Shannen’s husband, Paul, arrived soon after and the three of us (me, Paul and Kelly) we went out for dinner. I waited up for Shannen to get home and she arrived just after midnight – but we didn’t go to bed until after 1.30am as we were gossiping and drinking cups of tea!

We slept in yesterday morning and in the afternoon, Shannen had an appointment with her hairdresser. We arrived a bit early so we went to a nearby bar for a quick Margarita and persuaded the waiter to give us paper cups so we could take our drinks along to the hairdressers with us!! Ruth, Shannen’s hairdresser, was great fun and we were there for 3 hours! I asked if she could put some pink highlights in my hair but unfortunately, she didn’t have any pink hair dye :-(

After we had finished there, we went to a hotel bar for the evening to meet with some of Shannen’s friends and Shannen and I had a Cosmopolitan and a bite to eat and then Shannen and I headed off at about 9pm.

Our plans are to visit Lake Tahoe today (Friday) and we are off to Monterey Bay on Saturday :-)