Sunday, December 26, 2010

LA

We are now in Palos Verdes visiting my mom's parents after 3 days in Beaumont with grandma Theresa. While we were in Beaumont Bonnie and I went on a hike with my dad and his brother Dale to the Morongo Wilderness Preserve. Here is a picture of Bon and me that Dale took while we were on the hike.

We are going back to San Francisco on the 29th and it is supposed to start raining again in the middle of the week so hopefully our flight doesn't get delayed again like it did coming down!

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Family Vacation

Tomorrow we are flying to LAX to visit the grandparents. We will first drive to Beaumont to visit Grandma Theresa and spend Christmas with her, then we will drive to Palos Verdes on the 26th to spend my mom's parents' wedding anniversary with them. I think it will be their 79th anniversary, give or take a few.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

Seattle, again.

I went back to Seattle last weekend to visit with my friends at the Yellow House. It was a real good time. Among other things we: got me a library card, made footprint reindeer decorations, made a gingerbread house, got a pizza, ate burritos, put up christmas lights, and made a cake. I am in San Francisco for a week until we all fly down to LA for a week. Here is a picture of Rosie putting up lights that my friend Emily took:

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

No One Was Like Vermeer

I came back from Santa Cruz! Only without my bike helmet. I went to Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall with friends Andrey and Elizabeth. It was a good show, a bit sillier than last February in Brooklyn, more dancing less sing-a-longs. I think that one thing that was the same is that both times he didn't even get all the way off the stage before he came back for the encore.

Then I went to the MOMA with Bon yesterday, we saw the 75th Anniversary exhibit and then we walked around some other stuff. It was the once a month free day but it wasn't that crowded except for the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit which I also saw in New York during the summer. We briefly walked into the wine exhibit but decided we were in over our heads. Bon said, "Are you gonna blog about this?" I said, "No." Then I said, "Yes." Then Bon said, "Blog."

We were going to work in the garden today but it rained all day instead. Maybe we will tomorrow. I am going to plant squash everywhere.

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Bon and Pat have fun all day long.

I have been in San Francisco for a while now. Things that I have done are clean the room (mostly), fix the computer, ride the bike to West Portal, go to Mariah's choir concert, get burritos (2). I am going to Santa Cruz tomorrow to visit Stef, we're gonna have a great time but I can't stay long because I have to be back Sunady night to go see Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall!

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Friday, November 19, 2010

We made it

We arrived in San Francisco late last night after a long rainy drive from Portland. It is nice to be back in the city but unfortunately the rain followed us down the coast. Erik is here for a couple days and then he will keep driving down to Ventura County. I am excited to be in SF for a little while and see how different it is. I already don't understand how to ride the bus.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Seattle

We have been hanging out in Seattle for the last week with our friend Rosie and her friends at the Yellow House. Tomorrow we are gonna drive down to Olympia to pick up some of Bonnie's stuff and then to Portland to stay with my friend Amanda.

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Idaho and new pictures

We are in Northern Idaho, in Dover which is near Sandpoint on Lake Pend Oreille. It has been raining on and off mostly on but only a drizzle, sometimes more. Because we crossed into the Pacific Time Zone on Daylight Savings Day we are frequently very confused as to the time. Tomorrow I think, or the next day we will drive to Seattle if the weather is nice. I have some more pictures now, they are all on flickr but here are a few:

Christina in Big Bend, TX and everyone in White Sands, NM:


In Albuquerque, NM:


Christina outside her new house in Santa Fe:

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Yellowstone

We are in Yellowstone today but we will only be able to stay for one day because they are expecting snow on Sunday and we don't want to get caught in a storm. Because the days are so short (10 hours of light/8 hours of sunshine) we won't be able to hike in anywhere tonight so we will stay at the campground at Mammoth. It has been very cold, the ranger at the Old Faithful visitor's center said it was 20° last night here. At our campsite on Phelps lake in Grand Teton our water had a sheet of ice on top in the morning but when we got back to the truck the other gallons of water were frozen solid. Because it has been so cold and there is snow on its way we will drive all the way to Erik's family's house in northern Idaho tomorrow to clean off and warm up.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Wyoming and Grand Teton

We slept last night near the eastern border of Idaho and drove into Wyoming this morning. As we climbed into the mountains out of Alpine, WY the temperature dropped to 31 degrees but it is supposed to clear up later today and be clear through the weekend. Right now we are in Jackson, WY and after lunch we will drive into Grand Teton Nat. Park and probably spend a day there. Tomorrow we will continue on to Yellowstone and hopefully the weather stays good for a couple days.

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