And then there was Mother's Day!
Nice breakfast, lazy day and all that.
We celebrated Mother's Day early at our daughters house. Flowers on the dining room table, bubble wine and oh my gosh, Lobster Thermidor! Prepared by the family Chef! Fresh baked bread, artichokes a very good green salad, nice wine and a sweet desert. What else could one ask?
The lobster dredged up a bunch of nostalgia. Remembering The Bold Knight, a restaurant on Monterey Road, frequently visited back in the day and Vahl's in Alviso where Fredrik was introduced to lobster at the age of 12 and then he wanted to eat nothing else on his birthdays and other special occasions! So be careful folks! I would urge you to not suggest to your children they try lobster, King crab, or scallops until they turn.... oh, around the age of twenty-one!
So, with the Mother's Day gathering out of the way a day early, we were free to just "play"! With the onset of "Thermidor Nostalgia" we, the Photographer, and I decided to do a little road trip down memory lane! Namely Monterey Road. A road so familiar. A road where the Drive In movie theatre is located. We used to go there often... the kids would lay on top of the car, to watch the movies. Seven Trees Shopping Centre is there, where we would turn to go to the library, when the kids were young! That same centre is close to where Tony's Pizza is located. And low and behold, that old Italian Restaurant is STILL there! The Photographer and I stopped on our way back home. Indulged in one Stromboli each! Yes, just the same, just as we remembered, so very good! Still too much food to consume in one sitting, so enough for the next days lunch! Yea, just as we remembered!
No Bold Knight, however! We found out they closed some where around 2016. New apartment buildings on the old site. An-Jans is still there, next to the railroad tracks. Oak Hill Cemetery looks as if it's double in size. Other than that, not much remains the same! Saint Clair Hotel is there, No Eulipia's, No South Bay Lumber.
Memories float through our heads, lot's of memories! It is nice that there are still some tiny shreds of "the old". Not much, but just enough!
