Two Parades in One Day

 

                                             

Dec 13, 2025 - Today is the Beary Merry Holiday Parade in Los Osos and the holiday boat parade in Morro Bay.  We of course need to go to both!

We walked down to Los Osos Valley Road for our first parade of the day, and decided to stop at Carlocks for a danish

We sat across from the judging stand and the Morro Bay pirate walked by

Morro Bay Band

My favorite float was Mike's Barber Shop...this guy was getting a hair cut

The Basset Hounds Club

Santa on a wave runner

It was a fun parade, half the town was in the parade and the other half watched the parade

We went to Elaine & Ian's for an afternoon game and then headed to Morro Bay for the boat parade

Marilyn's got some warm clothes for the evening

Kev & I stopped at Sammy J's for a Guinness.  They even have a stamp, I got an otter.

first Guinness since we were in the UK

Yup!

We walked down to the waterfront for the parade

lots of people

and lots of lights

nicely decorated boat!

We found the Greene's

looks like Marilyn missed most of the parade

Dec 14, 2025 - Today we decided to walk to Sea Pines for a beer and some football

The golf course bear is ready for Christmas

Dec 15 - 19, 2025 - We had another fun week of work, our last work week of the year!

The Greene's are decorated for Christmas

good looking tree and beautiful sunrise and view of the rock 

good morning you two

clouds in between the mountains

We're headed out for a walk and we're not letting go of our rattle

Our NYT puzzle summary for the year!  I wonder why we missed 49 days of puzzles?

I've got company while I have some eggs for breakfast

A beautiful sunrise as we walk to the car

Hollister Peak 

are we smitten or what?

Marilyn is very interested in her tongue this week

sunrise from the back deck

hahahahahaha

Bishop Peak Hike and Christmas Tree Lighting in Osos

 

                               

Dec 6, 2025 - It's the weekend!  We decided to walk to Sylvesters for lunch.  And this evening is the Los Osos Christmas Tree Lighting.

A bench under a shrub arch that I found on our walk

the Old Fashioned with cheese (1/2 pounder).  Hopefully next time we remember that we need to share this burger.

Lisa's out on her e-bike and Romeo's chasing her

Romeo loves to run!

The Osos Christmas Tree is a little puny

But so cool to have a tree on the pier (with the cow)

We met up with the Greene's at High St. and Marilyn is dressed for the holidays

family photo

Santa showed up (with his sunglasses on of course)

We got in the group photo

here's a close-up

After the tree lighting we headed to the Merrimaker for a beer (they've got a pretty nice tree)

And our lights were on when we got home

Dec 7, 2025 - It's Sunday morning and we're trying to get as many hikes in as we can  on the weekends, so today it's the big one...Bishop Peak.  It's the tallest of the "Morros" or the Nine Sisters which is a collection of Volcanic plugs in San Luis Obispo County.  There are actually 23 plugs total, but the Nine Sisters are named since they are the most distinct.   All but 2 of the plugs are in a straight line.  The Nine Sisters are as follows:  Morro Rock, Black Hill, Cerro Cabrillo, Hollister, Cerro Romauldo, Chumash Peak, Bishop Peak, Cerro San Luis Obispo and Islay Hill.  I guess we'll need to hike all that we can.  I haven't looked them all up, but I do know that Hollister is privately owned, so we won't be able to hike it.

We drove to the Highland Dr trailhead.

Our first view of the peak from the trail

It's supposed to be an intermediate/advanced hike and we decided if it was too tough for us, we'd turn around if we got uncomfortable.  The hike is about 1000 ft elevation and 4 miles round trip.  The map said it should take about 2-3 hours.

We're getting a bit higher, with some nice views

San Luis Obispo in the distance

first selfie of the day

we're out of the woods 

Laguna Lake in the distance

we're getting close

pretty view but not quite the top 

the bench says "end of trail"

it was a nice spot to sit for a bit

did we save enough to get down?

time for a quick snack before heading down

And a view from the other side.  It was a great hike, probably at the edge of our abilities, but so glad we did it.  It took us right around 3 hours to complete.

Dec 8 - 12, 2025 - It was another fun week with Marilyn!

Elaine put together a nice toy box for us and we had fun with these bug socks.  Marilyn wasn't quite sure what to think of those noisy things on her feet!

she couldn't stop looking at them

they made her giggle

the pink morning sun on Morro Rock from the living room

Marilyn's ready for our morning walk!

Today was a hot day, and we ended up at our apartment for the afternoon

"those bugs on my feet are so weird"

how did you get upside down?

who is that in the mirror?

Marilyn loves her "friends"

it's time for someone to take a nap!