![]() ![]() Wonder how many people have had their picture taken in this spot? Hard to explain what it’s like to walk among these majestic giants…but I’m pretty sure I know how an ant feels now. ![]() ![]() We visited Yosemite and the great Sequoias. Wasn’t I styling in my RL houndstooth jacket? ( LOL) Ok, not the greatest look for me…but I’ve always had this thing for houndstooth jackets. ![]() It’s really breezy on the Golden Gate bridge. We walked across “the” bridge, visited Fisherman’s Wharf and Ghirardelli Square…pigged out on yummy chocolate. □ We did it all during the 2-3 days we were there. Despite the weather, I still had to get a shot of the “Painted Ladies.”ĭon’t worry…this isn’t a “vacation” post. We headed up to San Francisco and as you can see, it was a very cloudy day. The supplies made it to Sunnyvale Community Services on Sunday night, 13 hours before the students arrived to get them.Around nine years ago, I visited California for the very first time. The shipment was transferred to another shipping company, which drove the supplies to California, and FedEx executives donated $6,000 to cover the cost. They got through to logistics experts and executives at FedEx headquarters looking for a way to get the supplies to Sunnyvale by Aug. Sunnyvale Community Services Executive Director Marie Bernard reached out to the Sunnyvale Rotary Club, which contacted three Rotary Clubs in the Memphis area. The back-to-school kits had been ordered and the agency had cleared out space in its warehouse to store the items.īut that warehouse was still empty last week, as the 1,600 kits were in Memphis, Tenn., where they had been stalled for weeks because of shipping delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Get more details at MEMPHIS MIRACLE: Sunnyvale Community Services was all set to provide school supplies, along with gift cards for new shoes and backpacks, to 1,600 low-income kids on Monday. Prices range from $15.99 to $69.99 depending on which tour you pick and if you go on a high-traffic night like a weekend. 10 and adds more dates in October leading up to Halloween. Tickets are already on sale for the All Hallow’s Eve experience, which kicks off on selected nights starting Sept. The front of the mansion again will be decorated with a projection-mapped light show, which was a big hit last year when indoor tours weren’t allowed. The ticket includes the Jack O’Lantern trail, a self-guided tour through the Victorian Gardens, which will be decorated with dozens of hand-carved pumpkins (It’s also sold separately for guests who’d rather pass on the scares). General Manager Walter Magnuson says the the Lost in the House tour takes its cue from the various paranormal investigations the famed home has hosted, going back to a visit from Harry Houdini in 1924. It’s described as a “theatrical paranormal investigative adventure,” which I think is very fancy talk for “haunted house” since it includes special effects, actors and jump scares. So in that respect, the landmark’s current caretakers are following tradition with a fairly constant reinvention.īesides the regular daytime tours of the house and gardens and special evening flashlight tours - the one set for Friday the 13th next week is already sold out - the tourist attraction has added holiday events, an axe throwing area at the stables, a shooting gallery and, most recently, Houdini’s Escape Room experience.īut for this Halloween season, the Winchester Mystery House is amping up the “mystery” with a new Lost in the House tour. While the legend that Sarah Winchester’s house was under continuous construction for some 40 years is certainly untrue, there’s no denying that the Winchester Mystery House grew over those decades from a modest farmhouse into a 160-room mansion. ![]()
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