Weekend review

Alright, I was thinking about changing the title to "Best weekend ever," but I've had a lot of awesome weekends during my life.  This weekend, however, will rank in the top 10 weekends I've had.

If you read my blog from Friday, you know that I rented a car for the weekend and are probably wondering what I did that made this such a great weekend.  Well, it actually wasn't about what we did this weekend, but who I was with.  It is hard to explain and I'll tell some of y'all in private later what is going on, but trust me, this was truly that great of a weekend.

No, I didn't spend all weekend with any celebrities or ride around in a Ferrari (yet), or fly on a private jet.  I went out with a couple of people from the resort and I have a feeling that we will be friends for life.  That all by itself is life changing, but it it much more than that.  Like I said, I'll tell some of y'all in private because I'm not going to blog publicly about other guests of the resort.

So, for this posting, I'm going to concentrate on the activities.  Saturday afternoon we started by going to a Ferrari dealership near here located on Parkway Calabasas.  This is not the average Ferrari dealership because they sell other expensive brands of cars like Bentley, etc.  There wasn't a lot of activity on the lot and one of the salesmen showed us around and answered all our questions.  No one from the group purchased a car, but it was informative for future planning.

We spent the rest of the afternoon watching a movie and shopping at the Hard Rock Cafe.  We were invited to dinner at Cut, so we went again.  That kobe beef steak was still out of this world amazing.  Last week someone in my van told me that I needed to do sprints on the beach to work off the steak dinner that I had 2 weeks ago.  I told her it was well worth it and I'd like to report that I will be doing sprints again this week.

Today we spent the afternoon at the Ronald Reagan Museum and I have a ton of pictures, so let's get straight to them.

This is the final resting place of President Ronald Reagan.

This is a piece of the Berlin wall.  The side facing us in the picture was on the West side of the wall.  Notice the beautiful paint work including the butterfly and flowers.  The word "freedom" is written in the middle.  I wonder what the East side of the wall looks like?  Hmmmmmm, let's check it out.

That's right, the East side of the wall is plain.  These two pictures are pretty much all we need to know about freedom vs. socialism.

Here I am behind the podium giving Reagan's inaugural address.

In the museum, they had a full scale replica of the Oval Office during Reagan's years.  The Oval Office was bigger that what I thought it would be.

Obviously you'll recognize this as Air Force One.  This airplane I believe is a Boeing 707 and was used from Carter through George Bush.  If you research this airplane online, it will say that this plane was used through George W. Bush.  This is true, even though the current Boeing 747 Air Force One started with Bill Clinton.  Bill Clinton had to use the airplane above once a a back up and George W. Bush flew on it during its last flight to the museum.

The items around Air Force One were pretty cool as well.  Here they had one of Reagan's motorcades, some Secret Service vehicles, and one of the Marine One helicopters.  Notice the license plate above.

Here's a couple of pictures of Marine One.  In the bottom picture you can see a beam next to the helicopter and the paper under it.  The paper said that this beam is from the world trade center.  I don't know how this beam connects to Ronald Reagan, but it it was still humbling to see the beam.

Here I am giving my approval of one of the jet engines from Air Force One.

And now for the picture of the day.  This is a picture of me standing on the steps outside the entrance to Air Force One.  This was the only point where private cameras were not allowed, so they had a photographer.  I decided to buy the picture anyway, because how often do you get to stand on the steps just outside Air Force One and wave to the crowd?

And one more bonus picture just for those of y'all who complain about high gas prices.  This is a picture on Santa Monica on the border between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills.  By the way, I didn't fill up with gas there because it was cheaper in Malibu.

Closing thought for the day:  It is disappointing that this weekend is over.  It was that amazing, honestly. When I came to the BLR, I knew it would be life changing in the weight loss area.  I didn't realize that meeting some of the people here would change my life in other areas.  Oh ya, and the Reagan museum was incredible and worth a trip out here just to see it.  Tomorrow I'll post some videos.