Saturday, March 28, 2009

Spring Break '09

Ok, so this last week and a half Brittany and I went to Lakeport to spend time with Brittany's grandma Liz and great grandmother Virginia, as well as releasing the ashes of Britt's aunt. The releasing of the aunt's ashes also brought down her other grandmother, Bonnie. From left to right: Brittany, great grandma Virginia, Melissa, Bonnie, and Marti (great aunt)
In Lakeport we spent a lot of time at family's house, either playing games with Britt's sibings, Garrett and Conner (tons of Settlers of Catan), or watching tv. The funnest thing we did was take a trip into small town Clearlake and walk around the unique shops. Nothing too extraordinary about the place, but there were some fun shops that we checked out. One of those shops specialized in artistic gourds.
After spending a few days in the Lakeport area we took the very curvy road all the way to Eureka. It's amazing how quickly a vacation goes by when I am in a new place, and especially when I am busy doing things. Not to say that Eureka was always hopping, there was a lot of downtime at the Callahan home, but even then it still moved pretty fast with playing games, both computer and on boards (Settlers... lol) and trying to rush through the series Battlestar Galactica that they have on DVD.
Hopefully will write more about vacation later. Going to go with Britt into town to buy groceries so we each have something to eat for the upcoming term :P

1 remarks:

Anonymous said...

Hi Jared-
Enjoyed your impressions of your Lake County visit. Was a joy to meet you. But just wanted to correct the name of the town we visited and where you took your photos of the gourd art, etc. It is the little town of Upper Lake located on Hiway 20, not Clear Lake that is located on Hiway 53. Really enjoyed the picaso photo album that you submitted. Will be seeing you all at the end of the month! Say Hi to Brittany for me. Marti :o)