Both Bella and I (Kevin) were able to dress up and enjoy the Halloween festivities. Bella put on her skeleton outfit, although she has outgrown her costume a little from last year. My group had a theme of The Running of the Bulls at work and I wore this great bull costume that my coworker Caroline had found online. We did several runs through the office and had a great time, although it was quick for me to see how out of shape I am when running around with a big costume. We look forward to finding a great costume for little Wyatt next year.
On Sunday, Dia de Los Muertos, Katie and Dan were married at the Leo Carrillo ranch in Carlsbad. It was a beautiful day and ceremony and I snapped a couple of photos during the ceremony. Congrats to you guys!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Dana & Terry's Visit To SD - Oct 16-19th
Dana and Terry came to visit for the weekend and we had a great time seeing some sights and just hanging out relaxing. We had a chance to take them to La Jolla cove and the Wild Animal Park, to see some wildlife and some other nice sights. We were glad they were able to come down one more time before Wyatt was born.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Coastal Trip - Days 7 & 8 Ferndale to Point Arena to San Fran to Home - Oct 2 &3
On Friday, Oct 2nd, we said goodbye to Ferndale and for the first time started driving south, heading down the 1 to Point Arena where we would be staying the last night of our trip. The drive was gorgeous as we saw some great stretches of coastline. We stopped to see the famous Glass Beach in Fort Bragg where years of erosion had smoothed what used to be discarded glass trash into colorful little beach "rocks". From there we headed down thru Mendocino where we had a nice lunch and then into Point Arena where we found our little hideway hotel and saw a fantastic sunset over the ocean. Definitely a great place to spend our last night.
We woke up on Sat in Point Arena and headed over to the tour the lighthouse. Built in 1870, the views were great and it was cool to actually go up into a functioning historic lighthouse. We again started down the 1 for our last couple hours along the shoreline and there was a bike race going on which made the windy roads even a little more interesting. We cut back to the 101, thru Marin county, and then across the Golden Gate into San Fran to catch our flight back home. It was the end of an incredible trip with many great memories, but it is always nice to go back to San Diego, and see Bella who my Dad had been nice enough to dog-sit for the week we were gone. We look forward to another trip in the future to Northern California.
We woke up on Sat in Point Arena and headed over to the tour the lighthouse. Built in 1870, the views were great and it was cool to actually go up into a functioning historic lighthouse. We again started down the 1 for our last couple hours along the shoreline and there was a bike race going on which made the windy roads even a little more interesting. We cut back to the 101, thru Marin county, and then across the Golden Gate into San Fran to catch our flight back home. It was the end of an incredible trip with many great memories, but it is always nice to go back to San Diego, and see Bella who my Dad had been nice enough to dog-sit for the week we were gone. We look forward to another trip in the future to Northern California.
Coastal Trip - Day 6 - Sebastopol to Ferndale Oct 1st
After grabbing some muffins at tasty local bakery, we headed out of Sebastopol and up the 101, making our way to the Redwoods and the Avenue of the Giants. The whole drive was gorgeous as we made our way well into Northern California. We drove thru several little towns and then literally drove THRU a very big tree, the famous 315 foot tall Chandelier tree in Leggett (see the pics and video below).
Just a little further north of that we arrived at the Avenue of the Giants, the 32 mile two lane road that takes one thru the heart of the redwoods, with the Eel River snaking alongside. This drive is so spectacular that we spent as much time as we could before heading up to Ferndale.
We had chosen to stay in this little town because of its proximity to the redwoods and to stay at the Gingerbread Mansion, a great little B&B that we had seen online. We had booked the Italian-inspired Veneto room which was great. We drove 10 min over to the beach which was empty and caught a beautiful sunset, prior to eating some pizza at the local pizza joint, and then heading back to the room where Kelly (and Wyatt) had a relaxing bath in the raised tub. Even with all the other amazing places we saw on this trip, I believe we both agree that this was our favorite day of the vacation.
Just a little further north of that we arrived at the Avenue of the Giants, the 32 mile two lane road that takes one thru the heart of the redwoods, with the Eel River snaking alongside. This drive is so spectacular that we spent as much time as we could before heading up to Ferndale.
We had chosen to stay in this little town because of its proximity to the redwoods and to stay at the Gingerbread Mansion, a great little B&B that we had seen online. We had booked the Italian-inspired Veneto room which was great. We drove 10 min over to the beach which was empty and caught a beautiful sunset, prior to eating some pizza at the local pizza joint, and then heading back to the room where Kelly (and Wyatt) had a relaxing bath in the raised tub. Even with all the other amazing places we saw on this trip, I believe we both agree that this was our favorite day of the vacation.
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