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Or at least the model of our home…  On Sunday morning Jean and I woke up and drove down to Santa Ana to meet my dad for brunch at the Orange County Mining Company.  The restaurant is perched up on this big hill, overlooking what appears to be a good chunk of Orange County.  The building looks like a runaway mine train ride at Disney World, with the whole country-western motif.  The worn wooden beams even smell like those faux wild west buildings in amusement parks.  We got there at 9:30am and waited in a little room with a bar for about 20 minutes to be seated.  They have a big deck that looks out over Orange County.

The brunch was good.  I liked the breaded pork chops and the chicken crepes.  Jean filled up on pancakes, bacon and chocolate cake, and my dad tried just about everything on the buffet.  He made a pretty decent mess with the crab legs and shrimp.  I saw this chocolate fountain thing, where you dip strawberries in it, but none of us tried it.

After lunch we drove back to our place and then the three of us drove up the hill so we could show my dad our home.  He walked around in our actual home (the framing is done and the windows were installed since the last time we were up there).  We also walked around the model and he said he thought it was beautiful, but way too big for us.  He kept going on about how far away it is, but it isn’t very far from my work compared to our current place.  It is further away from him though, but it shouldn’t take him more than an hour and a half to get there as long as he isn’t doing it on a Friday evening.  Plus, the next time he goes to Vegas with us we’ll be that much closer!

Here are some pictures from the weekend, including a show of Jean’s angel fish and a clown loach:

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