Back from California

 

It's been a while since I've blogged. And for good reason.

Well, from June 6 – June 16, I was on a Clark W. Griswold-styled family vacation out in California. Roxie and I took the kids out west for a getaway.

We flew out to San Diego and rented a van. We hit the beach on our first day there and then we spent some time at Sea World, the San Diego Zoo Preserve and Legoland.

From there, we drove north and went to Universal Studios and Hollywood for a day. We also spent a few days at Disneyland. I lost my hat on a water ride at one point.

From there, we drove up to the Sequoia Mountains and checked out the Redwood forest. While I was there, I accidentally ended up about 8 feet from a rattlesnake in the wild. Interesting. But I survived to tell the tale. I was looking out for bears instead.

We drove through Fresno. I used to live there from 1973- 1979 and attended kindergarten through second grade there. I saw my old home and my old grade school.

Finally, we made it up to San Francisco and avoided the fires south of Monterrey. It was much colder there, but we did go to Alcatraz and went on a tour of all of the San Francisco sites. After ten days, we finally caught a plane and headed home.

Since then, I've playing catch up at work. Lots of catch up work.

We missed seeing the world's biggest ball of twine, but we saw plenty of other things. California is pretty crazy. Nuff said and we survived.

 

JAWS appears courtesy of Universal Studios, California.