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| I spent the 4th of July with Eric and his girlfriend, Natalie, in San Francisco. First, though, they took me to a beautiful spot in Bodega Bay called On The Water's Edge. This was a view out our window. We were right on the bay with a wonderful view of the birds and sailboats! |
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| Eric at the top of the steps going down to the deck area. |
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| Eric had fun picking out assorted salt water taffy flavors for us to snack on over the weekend! They were delicious!! |
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| Hmmmm....getting this kid to flash his NORMAL great smile is realllllly hard! :D |
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| This was such a relaxing and fun weekend. Just what we all needed....me from just getting off of a stress filled year of teaching and them from working LONG hours as new lawyers (Eric until 9/9:30 pm and Natalie until 11pm sometimes!!!!) Yikes! On our drive north searching for a winery we found this great little cemetery. So we stopped, walked around and saw some interesting stones. |
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| A vineyard!! :) |
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| ...and the tasting began! We had so much fun and learned a lot about the grapes and wine in that area of CA. |
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| Another view out the window of the condo we were staying in. |
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| We even got to see the fireworks right outside of our window. It was lovely!! |
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| Lots of sailboats in the bay. |
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| MUCH colder than we were expecting near the bay area. We were walking out to watch the people crabbing. |
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| The next day we drove inland again to find the Russian River to go fishing. We came upon this small rodeo and Natalie was so excited. She had never seen a rodeo, so we pulled over and she was on the sitting on the stands watching in a matter of minutes. Eric, however, spotted the BBQ sandwiches and headed that direction first! We had so much fun laughing and eating! We never did get to the fishing part of the day! :) |
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| The kids at a rodeo in CA....who would have guessed!!??!! :D I thought that would be more of a CO activity! |
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| Next we found a fun spot to play. The weather was AWESOME......like 20 degrees warmer when we drove inland! |
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| Stacking rocks, damming the water and drinking wine.....it doesn't get much better than that! Can you say...RELAX? AND sharing this with my kids! I LOVED it! ;) |
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| ...just playing in the water on a Sunday afternoon! Fun, fun! |
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| My kids in among the rocks.....they are so cute! |
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| CUTE! |
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| I did mention the wine, right? :) |
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| Natalie's little garden of rocks! Gorgeous! |
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| Low tide and the last morning before we left Bodega Bay to head back to the big city. |
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| My teacher friend, Courtney, from Morocco lives near San Fran. She, her mom and grandma came to meet me for lunch in San Fran. We had a great time catching up! |
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| When I got back to CO I drove up to Cheyenne and spent the night with Bill and Julie. We went downtown to watch Ross at work. He was wonderful! He has a singing gig at a very classy restaurant in Cheyenne this summer! I could sit and listen to him for hours. I especially enjoyed a couple of the songs that he had written! |
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| This is Jen (Ross' girlfriend) and Jill. Jill was in Cheyenne planning her upcoming wedding! What a treat to get to see everyone! |
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| We took the usual "Jill Marie Lindstrom" photo. This MIGHT be the last one! After Nov. "little Jill" will be Jill Marie Chi! :) |
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| The girls havin' fun! |
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| ....and the family havin' fun! :) They are always sooooo welcoming and good to me! It's always a treat to stop in and have a cup of coffee with Bill and Julie! (...just a joke! I don't drink coffee....and for a LONG time EVERY time I would stop to visit Bill would ask, "Hey, want a cup of coffee??" Now he asks and we both laugh!) Awwwwww......it is SO good to be back in the USA! What a fun 4th of July weekend I had. Thanking God for family and friends! |
