Day 23 - April 10 - Palm Sunday

A cool and overcast morning and it stayed overcast all day. 

We watched our church Palm Sunday service at 7:30am.

I went over to Amy's when the service was over and installed a support for her temporary kitchen drain so that it pitched towards the storm sewer drain.

Then it was time to start working on the new outlets by the crawlspace opening. By the time Carmen and Anna came over and it was time for brunch, I got the inside non-GFI outlet installed with wires to connect to the external GFI outlet and to connect to the existing power - hopefully the line is actually live.

Amy made a delicious brunch for all of us.

After lunch, we went to Balboa park for the organ concert. Anna dropped us off and while she parked the car some distance away, we walked down the canyon trail. There is a huge tree with roots extending out - not sure what kind of tree it is.

At the opening of the concert, a woman came out to sing the Ukrainian national anthem accompanied by the organ. Almost everyone stood and it was quite emotional. The organist is a youngish man from Granada, Spain and played a range of music from Bach to the 20th century, ending with the US national anthem - it was very good, as always. One thing that probably got more photos than anything else was "Ranger" a huge Great Dane who is a paying member of the organ society and sat in the front row - apparently he goes to all the concerts along with his "person". The organist even greeted Ranger at the start.

We went back to Anna's to relax and then went to the "Tap Room" for dinner. Carmen and I split a grilled Ahi salad which was very good although not quite as good as the one at the Sunset Beach Bar and Grill.

Brunch at Amy's








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