Re: from Gail and Don in Santa Barbara, CA regarding your August 2013 trip to CA (fwd)

[Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>]

 > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:52:10 -0700
 > From: h <http://www.gmail.com/~h40>
 > 
 > I  don't  get  why  she  went  on  and  on  about  a  million  things
 > that they can  do  rather  than  just  planning  to  meet  them?   Weird.
 > hlh
 > 
 >  On  Sat,  Mar  16,  2013  at  12:39  PM,  Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>  wrote:
 >  >  See  Gail's  email  telling  them  to  go  to  Yosemite  instead  of  
 >  >  Lake  Tahoe...
 >  >
 >  >  ----------  Forwarded  message  ----------
 >  >  From:  Pascal  LECOINTE  <http://www.orange.fr/~lecointepi>
 >  >  To:  Gail  <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 >  >  Cc:  NOELLE  <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  >  Date:  Sat,  16  Mar  2013  19:17:37  +0100  (CET)
 >  >
 >  >  Hi  Don  &  Gail,
 >  >
 >  > Just  a  quick  answer  to  saw  you  that  we  have  very  happy  to  
 >  > read  your  email.
 >  > 
 >  > My English is not perfect but it's not an issue for me to
 >  > understand English (Pascal), I'm working at Faurecia a world wide
 >  > company with English as standard language.
 >  > 
 >  > Isabelle doesn't use English for his job but she is able to
 >  > understand the meaning of our message, she prefer reading instead
 >  > of speaking.
 >  >
 >  > We will come in US without Flavien, with our twin's (Romain &
 >  > Corentin) , Flavien doesn't like traveling during long flight, he
 >  > prefer to stay in Normandy working as farmer during the harvest
 >  > time, he will make money during his vacation.  He is our oldest
 >  > son, he has 19 years old.
 >  > 
 >  > Our twin's have 17 years old, till now they travel with us, you
 >  > will find attached few pictures to see them.
 >  > 
 >  > We had decided to travel in Ca few weeks ago, I
 >  > accumulated lot of milles during more than 10 years with Air
 >  > France company, traveling mainly in Europe.
 >  > 
 >  > We will rent a car at the San Francisco airport via
 >  > http://www.alamo.fr/in ,http://www.alamo.fr/in, , full package
 >  > unlimited miles, insurance included, we will give back this car at
 >  > Los Angeles Airport.
 >  > 
 >  > Our 3 weeks time plans are not yet defined, we bought few guides
 >  > in order to organize our trip, in coming weeks we will let you
 >  > inform about it.
 >  > 
 >  > With our jobs, it wasn't possible to schedule our trip one week in
 >  > advance to attende the Santa Barbara's festivities.
 >  > 
 >  > It's not a problem for us to book a room at the hotel in order to
 >  > spend few days with you.
 >  > 
 >  > Noël, you are in copy to have a look of attached pictures
 >  >
 >  >  Best  Wishes
 >  >
 >  >  Isabelle  &  Pascal
 >  >  0033  2  33  38  66  03
 >  >  La  Chesnaie
 >  >  61700  Champsecret
 >  >
 >  >>  Message  du  14/03/13  23:45
 >  >>  De  :  "Gail "
 >  >>  A  :  http://www.orange.fr/~lecointepi
 >  >>  Copie  à  :
 >  >>
 >  > Hi  Isabelle  and  Pascal,
 >  > 
 >  > I hope you speak, read, and write English as we don't speak, read,
 >  > nor write French (except Don can understand a little French, and
 >  > we have two friends in Santa Barbara who speak, read, and write
 >  > excellent French).  Through Noelle we are delighted to learn that
 >  > you and your twin children will be coming to Ca this
 >  > August arriving on 8/5 to visit Noelle and Robert in San Francisco
 >  > and where-I-live and then us in Santa Barbara as well as you will be
 >  > traveling in Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas on your way to Los Angeles
 >  > and leaving on 8/23 to return to France.  We very much look
 >  > forward to seeing you then and are excited about it.
 >  > 
 >  > Unfortunately we do not have enough guest beds in our small
 >  > condominium to sleep the four of you.  There are inexpensive
 >  > hotels and motels about 5 minutes away from our home in a
 >  > restaurant/shopping area.  They are: Motel 6, Holiday Inn, and
 >  > Best Western that you can go on a computer to check their prices
 >  > and so forth to make a reservation unless you would like us to
 >  > find out the prices, their address, their phone number, and
 >  > perhaps email address for you to decide which place you would like
 >  > to make a reservation.
 >  > 
 >  > Please let us know what days you will be in Santa Barbara so that
 >  > we can be sure to be here then.
 >  > 
 >  > How old are the twins and what are their names?  Will you be
 >  > renting a car to drive to all these places in Ca?  I would
 >  > think seeing Yosemite would be more important than seeing Lake
 >  > Tahoe or maybe you can do both.
 >  > 
 >  > Please let us know what the interests are of the 4 of you so that
 >  > we know what places to take you to in the Santa Barbara area for
 >  > sightseeing.  For example, are you interested in animals, plants,
 >  > nature, hiking, history, architecture, touring the wine country
 >  > area to do wine tasting a half hour away from Santa Barbara in the
 >  > Santa Ynez area, attending evening classical concerts, going to
 >  > Solvang which is a Danish town in the Santa Ynez area that is a
 >  > cute tourist area with Danish architecture, Danish food and
 >  > souvenirs to buy, and so forth.  If you like wildlife, along the
 >  > coast on your way from where-I-live to Santa Barbara on Highway 1 are
 >  > wild elephant seals that come up at a particular beach area that
 >  > will be in the molting stage of their skin that are very
 >  > interesting to see and hear.  They are located near the famous
 >  > Hearst castle which is a very interesting tourist site.  In Santa
 >  > Barbara at that time of the year will be the main season for blue
 >  > whales to be out in our Pacific Ocean channel for tourists to see
 >  > from a boat.  As you may know, Don in his retirement became an
 >  > naturalist volunteer docent (guide) for the whale watching.  It is
 >  > expensive - about $80.00 per person to go on one of those trips,
 >  > but would be very interesting.  If you are interested in doing
 >  > that, please let us know well ahead so that Don can be sure to
 >  > sign up as a volunteer on one of those trips while you are here.
 >  > He is also a volunteer docent for the SB Botanic Garden, going to
 >  > the Channel Islands, and Arroyo Hondo Nature Preserve, so it might
 >  > be fun for you to see what a good guide he can be if you are
 >  > interested in nature.
 >  > 
 >  > In making your travel plans, you might also want to keep in mind
 >  > that during the first week of every August, in this case probably
 >  > 7/31-8/4, Santa Barbara celebrates its Hispanic heritage by having
 >  > a Fiesta every day during those days which includes parades,
 >  > Hispanic dancing performances in costume, Hispanic music, Hispanic
 >  > food booths, a rodeo, etc.  It is a very festive celebratory time.
 >  > If that interests you, you might want to come to Santa Barbara
 >  > earlier than you were originally planning.
 >  > 
 >  > We look forward to hearing from you hopefully fairly soon once you
 >  > have more details about your trip by reply email.
 >  >
 >  > Best  Wishes,
 >  > Gail  and  Don 
 >  > http://www.cox.net/~g3
 >  > -419-9492
 >  > 178  Ynf  Creynf  Qe.
 >  > Santa  Barbara,  CA  93111-6909