Lots of pictures, written statements, diorama's, and exhibits.
April 25, 2015 (Saturday)
Woke up to RAIN! Yes! California needs it so much. We were doing the happy dance when we saw it (and are hoping for much more).
Got up and got going. We went down to the breakfast room and ate. They had this really neat pancake machine working that was fun to watch. They had cereals, yogurt, cinnamon buns, muffins, fruit, an egg and cheese omelette, and lots of other things. Pretty good breakfast selection.
Cereals, juices, and the copier looking thing makes pancakes and spits them out, pretty neat.Lots of warm breakfast food.Milks and yogurts…Pancake maker, sorry for the fuzzy photo.Our breakfast, fast, easy and okay.
We left and headed for the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda. The drive was around 100 miles and took about two hours.
Pretty woman standing there to show how big the plant is in relation to her.The wild between San Diego and Los Angles.Love these purple trees.
These guys/gals were weaving dangerously.The Swallows are celebrated in the fence. They faithfully return every year to San Juan Capistrano.
Different top.Pretty cool rig.The sound walls have a nice touch.We got to the town of Yorba Linda. It seems a nice up scale community.Nice community landscaping.
We didn’t know until we got into Yorba Linda that it is also Richard Nixon’s birth place and where he and his wife, Pat, are buried. They charged us $8.50 per person to get in and then a docent gave us the layout if we wanted to do a self-guided tour.
A handsome fountain in front of the library.A grand place, especially compared to the only other one we have been too, the Herbert Hoover Library.Lobby dome.
Lots of pictures, written statements, diorama’s, and exhibits.Complex map.Nice volunteers throughout.
They also have scheduled tours. We opted for the self-guided. They were having a wedding in a section of the Library, which would be a wonderful place to have a wedding. The Library was very impressive and covered his pretty humble beginnings all the way through, Watergate, and until his death in 1994. We learned that Pat was a smoker (but not in public) and died of lung cancer in 1993. They also had a helicopter on loan, and a space exhibit to see. Glad we got to learn a little bit more about “Tricky Dick.”
His life in detail is documented.
Lots of nice art pieces.He was a Lieutenant Commander during World War II, assigned to the South Pacific.His major contributions were well covered.
A signed copy of ProfilesinCourage.The John Kennedy inscription suggested a close relationship with Nixon.Hard to read, “To Dick Nixon, with the highest regards of his friend, Jack Kennedy.”
Lots of nice gifts on display.Statues of historic meetings.Pretty woman displaying malicious compliance with my request to stand to show how tall Charles de Gaulle was.
Very hard to photograph, a double embroidered silk cat from China.
A large section devoted to the NASA accomplishments during his administration.A moon rock.Corinthian capital.The limo.
Nice reflecting pool being enjoyed by the ducks.Nice gardens.Edie’s penchant.They are buried here.He outlived her, she smoked, apparently Vicory non-filter.His Quaker family owned a store and gas station and were well off. His birthplace and childhood home.Headed to the helicopter.This is the helicopter Mr Nixon used to leave the White House after he resigned. It is on loan from the Marine Corp.Apparently, I wasn’t the first clever person to want my picture taken making the peace sign in the doorway.A wedding had just been held here.The wedding reception had the East wing replica occupied. Corinthian capitals in the background.
Lots of White house china.Pretty woman getting ready for her next adventure.
We left put into the GPS the closest In N Out Burger place, which was less than five miles away. We smelled it before we saw it. We went inside and what a zoo, loud and had to wait quite awhile before we got our order. It was worth the wait. So yummy. Glad to be back in the land of In N Out!
By this time it was around 1:30 PM and we headed out to our hotel in Thousand Oaks, about a 75 mile drive. We had forgotten how bad the traffic is in Southern California. It took us almost two hours to go only a couple miles. Horrible. We didn’t get to our hotel until after 6:00 PM. It was a pretty drive when we went along the ocean. It is lovely here with the flowers in bloom and the tropical trees.
LA skyline, traffic was horrible.
Interesting near downtown.Nice steeple.Getting to our home.Usually not our favorite.Breakfast room.Pleasant enough, comfortable room.
We are now in our room for the night. Pretty expensive but comfortable. I went on line to see what restaurants were in the area of Thousand Oaks and discovered they have a Cheesecake Factory here. We’re thinking about going there to dinner so I can mark it off the list.
My fate was sealed when Edie discovered this was here.Two story. We had a fifty minute wait for a table, so we wandered.It is a large mall, but the foot traffic seems light and several sections are boarded up, waiting for another retailer.We like the pseudo Egyptian look in the Cheesecake Factory.After about five minutes of wandering we decided to just put in an order to go.Corinthian at the entrance to the dining area..Got a little gas.California shock, haven’t seen prices like this in quite a while.
