Last Friday night Hubby's parents came to town to visit. Since then it's been a whirlwind of playing tourist with them.
Saturday we drove through San Francisco and on the Golden Gate Bridge on the way to Sonoma where we had lunch in Healdsburg. I love Healdsburg with its town square, shops and restaurants. The in-laws checked out some antique stores and I checked out Midnight Sun and some cool jewelry stores around the palazzo.
Next we made our way to Sebastopol where we stopped in at the Antique Mall. I love browsing at all the old items, but my true weakness is for old books and this place has its fair share. Books published in the late nineteenth century are incredibly beautiful with the gold printing on the front. Not sure if they have any real value, but I love looking at them on bookshelves. Think I may be a bibliophile. I found a wonderful mahogany nightstand at Food For Thought Antiques, while not an expensive antique it's a great reproduction piece from around the 1930s or 1940s, plus proceeds from this shop help fund the Sonoma AIDS food bank. We all had fun trying to fit it into the trunk with all our luggage. In the end we had to donate two folding lawn chairs from the trunk to make it fit.
We stayed overnight at the Sheraton in Petaluma. Luckily our rooms were at opposite ends of the hallway so we had lots of privacy. We were so zonked that we ate at the hotel restaurant, which was surprisingly good.
On Sunday we got up relatively early for breakfast, checked out, and headed to Napa. MIL wanted to check the outlets and she did manage to buy shoes and some other things. Then we headed to St Helena for lunch, and then stopped in a couple of wineries. We were exhausted by the time we got back to our place around dinner time.
Hubby took his parents to San Francisco to do Fisherman's Wharf via the cable car yesterday. I had a quiet day at home. Today the in-laws rented a car and are off to visit Yosemite until Thursday. Hopefully the GPS software program that my FIL is obsessed with will not get them lost (it was telling them that the 101 didn't 'exist'). Hubby and I will try to rest up for their return on Thursday and our little overnight stay in Monterey on Friday.
