Sunday, June 29, 1958

June 29, 1958

411 Bonnie Dr

El Cerrito, Calif.

Dear Brothers & Sisters

Since I wrote for the round robin the last time we have been down to San Diego to see Marold, Jeanne & Gregg in their new home and also to see various places and people along the way. We drove down in our new automobile — a yellow Plymouth — which we acquired early in May. As we were starting out on a Friday evening (we planned on driving to Merced the first evening so as to have less to drive the next day) I heard a funny noise when the car was in low but was not disposed to turning back at that point since all our plans for the trip had been made. The noise persister all the trip but didn’t give anu trouble — when I had the car in for a checkup when we got back, they found one gear with a tooth broken off and eventually they had to replace several gears before the transmission sounded all right, so I guess we were fortunate.

We stopped along the way to visit some of Jean’s friends & spent a couple of days in L.A. with Jean’s sister. Then we stayed in motels in various places while seeing Disneyland and Marineland, & visiting various people. We were at Howard Nelson’s for dinner one evening and Howard looked quite different than when I saw him last. He had lost a good part of his hair & looked rather different I thought. We also spent a few hours at Knott’s Berry Farm which I think the children enjoyed more than either Disneyland or Marineland. Muriel was frightened of several things Disneyland and of the whole, & other fishes too, at Marineland, so we feel that she was too young to really appreciate them.

We visited at Marold’s several days & visited the zoo & beach while we were there. The San Diego Zoo has a new part called the “Children’s Zoo” where they can pet animals etc & both M & P liked this — they didn’t want to leave as they were quite ready to do at the other places we say. We took two days to drive back so we arrived in time to unpack and relax a but before starting the work-a-day routine again.

As usual we keep busy in our every-day life. This summer I plan to paint the stucco on the house, maybe getting the first or conditioner coat on over the long 4th-of-July weekend. I started last weekend scraping off the old paint & still have some to do before I can start the painting. Jean has made herself a new outfit — which she plans to wear today when we go to the 50th wedding anniversary open house for the Gust Knocks.

Palma appears to be fairly well trained and has been increasing her vocabulary of late, but still is far behind Julie. Muriel measures her existence relative to the day, still more than a year off, when she can start kindergarten. This next week we will be at Roy & Beverly Milton’s for supper on Tuesday — we also saw David & his family on our trip.

All for now, till next the RR comes around

With love,

Carl