A Labor Day Adventure

It was time to conquer another county and hit the road for a day trip.. . .

We went to “discover” gold . . .
and bird watch . .

and check out the museum displays.

Eureka, we found it!

It was no surprise what our next stop was . . .

and most of the traffic was going the other way!

It was a fun day trip!

Happy Anniversary to Us!

We decided to have an anniversary adventure this year so we headed to Cali.

Our destination was Sacramento where we had some planned activities.
First up was the Crocker Museum.

We saw lots of great art but wasted too much time at the beginning looking at the more modern pieces.  It turns out they are my favorite.  I didn’t know that before we went.
Looking at art makes one hungry . . . where else would we go?

It was a great lunch, giving us enough energy to go shopping . . .

which wouldn’t have been as exciting if we had one closer to where we live.
And we drove home. . .

We are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful area and not too far away from things we don’t have.
What better way to spend one’s anniversary . . . than with each other!

Back to the O.C.

We took Leah to meet her great grandparents and assorted aunts and uncles.  I’m not sure she will remember it! 
In the process, she added both Nevada and California to her ever growing list of states she has been in.
We put the happy little family on an airplane to fly home while we continued our journey.
Since it was also our vacation, we decided to take some time for ourselves and do some things we wanted to do.
First on the list was revisiting Back Bay where a lot of bird watching hours were logged when we were in college.  Things have changed but there are still an abundance of birding opportunities.

I was feeling nosy and wanted to know what this fellow was painting.  I didn’t have my own binoculars so I used the next best thing. . . my camera . . . and I still couldn’t tell.  But I thought it made a good picture.

Since we lived there (a LONG time ago), a temple has been built.  We really wanted to see it (or at least I did and Paul was willing to take me there).  Sadly the grounds were closed but we could still see through the gate. . .

From there we headed to the shore to take a walk along the boardwalk. . .


and headed up the pier to see what we could see. .







and then we headed across the street to the spot where we had our first dinner out <3

All in all, I’d say it was a pretty good day!