Car Show with Bill and Patty

 

After 20 years in Washington State, my Uncle Bill and Aunt Patty have returned to Southern California. Bill got a job as a junior high principal near Ventura, where they are now making their home. They made the big drive last week, and Stace was able to take Friday off to help unload the giant moving truck into an apartment and a storage unit. It was a long day of hard work - made a bit longer when the men decided the unit Patty had rented was far too big, and a much smaller one would be just fine.  

  On Saturday, we cleaned out our garage and played in the pool in the evening. On Sunday, we headed out to a British Classic Car Show in Oxnard, just 10 minutes from Uncle Bill and Aunt Patty's place. Bill and Stace share a love of cars, so it was a lot of fun to go together. Here, they look over a Triumph TR3. Stace is spending a lot of his free time researching the various classic British sports cars he's interested in acquiring "some day."

This car is similar to the Hillman Imp Stace's parents had when he was a baby.

Violet had fun walking around the cars, and kept saying she wanted to get inside one. She'd go up close, almost touching them, and then scrunch up her nose, breathe deeply and say she was smelling them. Then, she smelled her stroller. It smelled like a stroller, she said.

 Cora, meanwhile, got lunch and produce at the adjacent Farmer's Market with Aunt Patty. Patty's seen her share of car shows over her decades with Uncle Bill.

It's great having them close enough to visit for a few hours now, instead of having to travel 1,000 miles. And, if we could have picked the perfect place for them to move, it would have been to Ventura. It will be fun to do some beach-town house-hunting with them!

Stace took Cora back into the car show for a few minutes to show her his favorites, including this Mini, owned by his work mate, Jimmy.