Mommy's Birthday Weekend

For Sara's birthday we went and spent the weekend at Dillon Beach, north of San Francisco. The little man was very well behaved for the whole time, though he developed a ravenous nocturnal appetite. But when you get to sleep in at such a beautiful beach house it makes up for it. The house was Sara's uncle's mother's house and we were really thankful to get to stay. Many thanks, Miye!

We forgot our camera (bad parents! bad parents!), so all we have to document the weekend is this mobile phone pic. But it was an action-packed weekend! We went to an old lighthouse in Point Reyes, saw two male elephant seals fight for territory, ate some great food including a spicy piece of chocolate lava, hiked in redwoods at Armstrong State Park, took long walks on the beach, and indulged in crazy sticky buns. Good times were had by all.

Happy birthday, mommy!

Road Trip!

Our cross country trip from Houston, TX, to Oakland, CA. Dad got a job in San Francisco, which allowed us to move back to California. Even though we were driving a huge moving van with a car carrier, we decided to make the trip memorable by taking an alternate route, visiting family in Pueblo, Colorado (home of the Consumer Information Catalog!) and Arches National Park in Utah. There were some pretty screamadelic moments when the van was going over Loveland Pass and the traffic would slow down but the big truck wanted to keep on truckin'.

We stayed in Winnemucca, NV in a casino flop pad for the last night between a brief stop at the Bonneville Salt Flats and before we rolled into picturesque Oakland near Lake Merritt. Then mom and dad almost killed each other trying to return the rental van. But after that everything was happy. Really! Almost like a fairy tale.