Friday, December 11, 2009
In honor of Mom's snow day in PA, here are some photos of the beaches in San Diego! It's also unseasonably chilly here, but not nearly cold enough to snow :)
Pretty sandstone cliffs above the beach
The patterns in the sand are really cool, right? They reminded us of that sandscape toy that Grammie Sheard used to have.
Hammy, as always :)
A reindeer kelp!
Beautiful Pacific sunset! We had an awesome time at the zoo and Sea World as well...will post pictures soon.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Yes, we're running a bit behind on the blogging...but here are some pictures from the second day of our Thanksgiving road-trip, when we left the ocean and headed over the hills and into the highland plains!
Carrizo Plains National Monument -- it was pretty deserted at this time of year!
Did you see the bird?
Coyote!
Antelope!
Pretty flowers, I forget what the sign said they were...
Native American rock art -- apparently some of the most important remaining examples (though it was hard to take pictures...this one is breaking apart but you can at least see some of the patterns and colors)
'Twas a very flat landscape -- it seemed to stretch on forever!
The San Andreas fault!!
Don't worry Mom, we saved Laura from falling in :)
Sunset on the plains....where the deer and the antelope play, yodel yodel yodel....
Overall, a very fun trip and cool experience! The whole trip felt a bit like we were stepping between those diaramas we made in 7th grade! We'll post the desert pics soon :)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Saturday we took the train to York. Here's the view walking into the city from the train station...
England has had a lot of rain these past few weeks and the roads and houses along the river were all flooded...
York is home to the National Railroad Museum. It's the largest railroad museum in the world and it's free. Poppop would love it here, you could easily spend several days looking at everything. I took some photos, but it was kind of dark inside, so most of them didn't really turn out.
The other two big attractions in York were Clifford's Tower...
And the York Minster, the second largest Church of England cathedral (after Westminster Abbey)
PK and I climbed the 250 steps to the top for a great view, but it was getting dark, so my photos aren't the best...this photo was taken halfway up...
Sunday, December 6, 2009
This is a weird statue of a little boy peeing. It's really famous and they change his outfit at different times of the year. Supposedly this outfit was special for some holiday that they were celebrating the week that we were there...
The waffles were amazing! I wish I could have brought some back for everyone to try...
This is the Belgium Royal Palace...
Here is the main cathedral in the city, St Michaels...
