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Saturday, March 28, 2009
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Spring Break '09 Pt2
Ok, so i think i left off with being in Eureka.
Eureka is an interesting town. It has a lot of artistic style and there are quite a few places with fun knick-knacks, cool art, and a lot of good food (not just because of the local seafood). But it's weird at the same time, for even though there seems to be a lot of interesting places to go and see, it is really expensive to live there and there seems to be a lot of... deterioration? Not that there's decay, it's just that there aren't enough people there to really make use of the area. And it's cold! Not really on the same note but geez, it's always so cold there!
Whenever I try and recollect all that happened there in Eureka, the main thing that I always think of is the day Brittany and I got to walk around downtown Eureka. Not that the other days didn't have a lot going on, it's more that Eureka had the most to see and was probably the most interesting (and affordable! it's no fun to just always stare at things when i can never try it out, especially food...). I always see lots of little shops around that sell faerie stuff and glass ware, but in old town Eureka they finally did one right, with a lot of magical statues and fantastic wares that were really intricate in detail. It was very cool. There were also a lot of little snack shops along the way with tasty snacks that weren't overly expensive (like italian soda, baklava, and truffles). We ended our time in a square with a ton of pigeons that were very used to humans.
And i love this photo of a bunch of 'em getting ready to land.
Spring Break was a nice change from the usual. And went by waaay too fast
Eureka is an interesting town. It has a lot of artistic style and there are quite a few places with fun knick-knacks, cool art, and a lot of good food (not just because of the local seafood). But it's weird at the same time, for even though there seems to be a lot of interesting places to go and see, it is really expensive to live there and there seems to be a lot of... deterioration? Not that there's decay, it's just that there aren't enough people there to really make use of the area. And it's cold! Not really on the same note but geez, it's always so cold there!
Whenever I try and recollect all that happened there in Eureka, the main thing that I always think of is the day Brittany and I got to walk around downtown Eureka. Not that the other days didn't have a lot going on, it's more that Eureka had the most to see and was probably the most interesting (and affordable! it's no fun to just always stare at things when i can never try it out, especially food...). I always see lots of little shops around that sell faerie stuff and glass ware, but in old town Eureka they finally did one right, with a lot of magical statues and fantastic wares that were really intricate in detail. It was very cool. There were also a lot of little snack shops along the way with tasty snacks that weren't overly expensive (like italian soda, baklava, and truffles). We ended our time in a square with a ton of pigeons that were very used to humans.
And i love this photo of a bunch of 'em getting ready to land.
Spring Break was a nice change from the usual. And went by waaay too fast
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
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
