Christina and I had a great day in Sonoma, CA this afternoon. We ate outside at a great Thai restaurant and I honestly had the best Pad Thai I've ever had at Rhin's Thai. We walked through the shops, got some ice cream at Ben & Jerry's andwalked through the park to finish our tour of the town. The weather turned out to be perfect. It was a great day! Oh and we saw one...
Tyler and I made it to Portland for another Person Family Christmas. Our flight was delayed a little, but Tyler was really excited to fly in an airplane again and was in an especially good mood. Yesterday, we went to Best Buy to get a new phone as a belated birthday gift (really nice, huh). I have been researching new phones for the past few months. As of yesterday I had it narrowed down to...
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My sister and brother-in-law are in town. We had a great time last night with them in downtown Walnut Creek and today in Monterey. We went to the aquarium, rented a 4 person bicycle, played some frisbee on the beach, and had an awesome dinner at a German restaurant which we thought was a pizza restaurant according to Yelp.
Our last stop yesterday was to Solvang, CA which I'll let Wikipedia explain: "Solvang was founded in 1911 on 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) of the Rancho San Carlos de Jonata Mexican land grant, by a group of Danish educators, who traveled west to escape midwestern winters. The city is home to some bakeries, restaurants, and merchants offering a taste of Denmark in California. The architecture of many of the buildings follows traditional Danish style. There is a...
Adventures from the Bay Area to Palm Desert Christina and I hit the road over the last few days to visit her grandparents in Southern CA. We left on Saturday morning a few minutes after 5am and traded off sleeping and driving. I didn't get to bed until 11pm Friday night because I was up cleaning the house from a long week. I'm always glad I cleaned the house prior to traveling because there is...