Day 10 (5/26)

Day 10
Thursday
7:15 Everyone wakes up, Kimmer, Annabel, and Victoria are going into the city, Carolyn stays behind because her mom wants her to sleep and get better.
Carolyn sleeps a bit and does some photo stuff and hangs around. At 2 she and her mom go to Tiburon to pick up the other girls from the 2:30 ferry.
8:16 Kimmer, Victoria, and Annabel start walking to the ferry
8:20 Kimmer, Victoria, and Annabel realize they must sprint till their lungs burst if they want to make it to the ferry on time
8:45 The girls (minus poor sick Carolyn) make it to the ferry and take off for the city.
9:20 Annabel is asked what country she is from. She is confused.
9:35 Annabel tastes homeade yogurt...yum
10:00 Annabel, Kimmer, and Victoria write for an hour in the sun.
11:00 Annabel, Kimmer, and Victoria take the metro to the Mission, the Hispanic neighborhood of San Fransisco. It is sunny and beautiful and they gallery hop all afternoon.
2:40 Now they’re all together they start driving toward Sebastopol (about a 90 min drive) which is where Paul and Jerry live. Paul used to work with Sharon at a law firm in New York, and it’s been great that Paul and Jerry live relatively close to the Winslow’s house because it’s allowed Sharon to renew her relationship with Paul (she didn’t know Jerry before). And they’re both really awesome people. Kind of like cool uncles for Carolyn. They have a flower business and grow flowers on their property which is absolutely gorgeous. They also do weddings and decorating and stuff. Oh, and they’re also absolutely AMAZING cooks and love entertaining and cooking for people.
4:00ish They get to Paul and Jerry’s house. Victoria, Annabel and Kimmer meet Paul and Jerry, their dogs Zeke and Jake and their cats.
4:20ish Paul shows KVA around their porch garden which includes pink lemon trees, a Buddha hand tree, Thai lime tree, lettuce (which they’re having for salad), flowers, orange trees, and kumquat trees. Then they go inside and chat and eat La Tur cheese (a mixture of goat, sheep, and cow milk) which is a really good soft cheese with a red pepper jelly and a jalapeno jelly
5ish Carolyn shows KVA around the front garden area (they have their amazing landscape gardens in the front and then it goes back into their back hydrangea (they have the most variety of hydrangeas I think in the states) gardens. Then KVA lie in the sun while Carolyn does photography (this is mainly where I took the 400 pictures).
7ish they get called in for dinner and they help serve the soup.
First course was an asparagus cream soup with creme fraiche that Paul had made for the first time. Absolutely delicious.
Salad course was salad made with lettuce from their garden with shrimp and fresh mango and their homemade salad dressing.
Main Course was roasted chicken (that had been brined in salt and sugar water) with potatoes and mushrooms (cooked under the chicken so they soak up the chicken fat)-are you drooling yet, Mr. Kaback? :) and lightly cooked in lemon and butter sugar snap peas
Dessert was lemon mousse with lemon-lime passion fruit sauce (I think I fed that to you once in a tart) drizzled over the top with blackberries.
So basically it was all really amazing (see the pictures-the dog is Jake). We helped clean up as much as they would let us and then drove home (around 8:40).