7/31/13 - Orinda, CA

We had breakfast and just sat around and talked this morning.  Lorna went to the hairdresser at noon.  Jim and I went to Trader Joes and then to the Lafayette Recreation Area.  We walked around the lake.  We also found a geocache after Trader Joes.  We went back to Lorna’s and around 6 pm we drove to Oakland to Home Room.  This restaurant was on the Food Channel on the “ Food Paradise: Cheese” episode.  The restaurant specializes in mac & cheese, and it was packed.  Come to find out, Home Room is on the same property where David had his podiatry practice.  The old building had been torn down and this building was built in its place.  Lorna said that David would have gotten a kick out of eating mac & cheese where he used to work.  A few blocks down was a geocache so we showed Lorna how to locate one.  Before leaving Oakland Lorna took us by her parents’ house where she grew up.  She still owns it.  When we got back to her house we had some Riesling and cookies.