Bye bye

Pinnacles National Monument

We had a great weekend in Soledad, California with Luby.  We drove down there Friday night after work and Eli was not too impressed with the slow traffic.  I ended up sitting in the back singing 'If you're happy and you know it clap your hands' a million times and doing fake sneezes because his favourite book is 'Pigs Make Me Sneeze'!  Soledad is smack in the middle of vegetable farming land ('The Salad Bowl' as it is fondly known) and from what we could tell the population in primarily Mexican.  Needless to say we ate some of the best Mexican food we've ever had so that was a nice bonus.  On a side note, and no guesses as to who provided this information, Soledad was also the town in which 'Of Mice and Men' was set.  The reason that we met there was to visit Pinnacles National Monument; a great state park which is famous for it's rocky ridges and caves.  It was formed by movement in the San Andreas fault line a bazillion years ago.

                                          A Stellar Jay

We also visited the restored Soledad Mission.  We were inside the chapel and there was a full sized manequin up on the wall at the front who was Mary.  Eli stared at her for quite a while and then finally waved and called out 'Hi'! 

Happy father's day!

Ocean beach

It seems like there have been more warm days this year than in the past 5 years combined!  I think San Francisco is trying to convince us to stay!  Eli and I went to Ocean beach today and had a blast.

Ocean beach?  No fog?

DOGGIE!!!!  I think we patted every dog on the beach today!

Still a little bit afraid of the water when we first got there!

Hold my hand mummy!

A nice family let us play with their sand toys.

Putting things in things

One of Eli's favourite games for a while now.  It just never gets old.

Beer

It was 85 deg in SF today!  A perfect day for a picnic and a beer with friends in the park.  Thanks for the picture Sara.

Cold water

We have  new video camera that takes HD movies but we can't seem to figure out how to upload the videos and retain the quality.  This site seems to need you to zip the file so the video comes out all grainy.  We need to do further investigation.

Baker beach

I've lived in SF for over 6 years and had never been to Baker beach.. until today.  Eli was a little bit scared of the waves, or maybe just the temperature of the water.  He did enjoy flinging sand everywhere though and getting it all over his face!  When we can figure out how to download from our new video camera we'll post a video.

Salt Lake City

Well we kicked off the goodbye to the USA tour last weekend in Salt Lake City (or high fiving the USA as Billy referred to it!). We had an awesome time and actually got some summer.  It was 90 degrees!  It was so nice to spend time with Billy, Larkyn and Grady and to meet their friends.  I was terrible with the camera but managed to get a few.  I'm sorry I didn't get Larkyn though.

Eli loved Grady's little kitchen.  At one point he was sitting inside the oven!  He spent the whole time we were there walking around with one of the little saucepans!