Fiftieth Entry

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Saturday was the Cherry Festival here in lovely San Leandro, California. I got up early to watch the parade go down Marina Boulevard. It was a nice parade...it always is a nice parade. So there we were, my dad, Firmino, Jen and Dayni watching the parade and gathering all the candy we could. After the parade, we went to Marina Family Park and walked, talked and ate our way through the actual Cherry Festival. It was a lot bigger than last years. The food was great and the freebies were even better. The weather could have cooperated a little more. It was cold and windy.

Later that night, my family went and saw Firmino in what was supposed to be his last performance as Millet in Fuddy Meers. It went really well:
"It gets funnier each time I see it!!" - Jen, of San Leandro
"I laughed, I cried, it was a stellar show!!" - Phil, of San Leandro
Anyway, they are going to have another performance next Saturday and a Matinee on Sunday. Very nice. I will go on Sunday at 3pm because my brother is in that one and not in the Saturday show.

Yesterday was a full day indeed! Jen, Carolyn, Lisa and I went to Brentwood to pick cherries. We picked Strawberries and Peaches also, but not in the quantity that we picked cherries. One estimate has the cherry count at ~43 lbs. Thats a lot of pie and cheesecake. I'm thinking of making the cheesecake a cherry/chocolate cheesecake, what do you think??

Anyway, we picked a lot of cherries and ate at fast food places not of my choosing(haha) and fed a cow. It was a fun day.