Sister's Retreat - Riverside Portion

Every once in a while my sisters and I get together for a "sister's retreat." This time, our husbands were invited, which was cool. It took place in California since Jane and Ken are on their mission and are restricted on where they can go.

The Fosters and Bleaks drove down here (to Lancaster) on a Thursday and stayed over night with Alan and I. We (all except Alan, who had to work) drove to Riverside the next morning to meet up with Jane and Ken and spend the day exploring the city. We were able to do some fun things.

First, we went to see the Orange groves at the California Citrus State Historic Park. They have a museum, but it was closed because of Covid. I forgot to even take pics of the orange trees!

We then went to lunch at a place called Tio's Tacos. It has to be the craziest place I've ever eaten. The whole  decor is artwork created basically out of "junk" like bottles, bottle caps, hub caps, license plates, water jugs, or any other kind of junk you can think of. It's a very eclectic, but fun place to eat.

This was a fun place to take a pic at Tio's Tacos!

Here we are (everyone except me) standing in line to order our food.

The food was delicious!

After lunch we went to the historic Mission Inn Hotel

 

I'm sitting in the President Taft Chair.

Our last stop was to the beautiful Fairmount Park. It was too hot to walk around it, so we drove around it instead.

Not sure what this tank is all about, but it was interesting to see at a park.

After this we had to head back to Jane & Ken's apartment to get ready for a special fireside that evening for all the senior couples in the mission. Ken arranged for Scott to present the fireside. He did a PowerPoint Presentation on the Rome temple that he was able to be the architect on plus the renovation plans for the Salt Lake Temple. He did a great job and I learned a lot.

We then left Riverside and drove to Lancaster for a couple more days of fun.