Tim and Karen delivered the "highlight" of Brian and Fern's trip by taking us all sailing. What a great day that was! Thank you Tim and Karen!

Fern and Carla having a Great time and we haven't even left the dock!

ROAD TRIP !!!!

San Carlos to Sedona: After leaving Dad and Maria's with tears in our eyes (well, some of us) we arrived in San Carlos to pick up Doug and Carla for the start of our trip North. We should have turned and run for the border when we saw them making trip after trip to the car with luggage! After some expert packing by the guys we were off! I should mention that when Steve goes on a trip he gets behind that wheel and stops for gas, food and sleep. When traveling with Doug and Carla you stop at a Convenience store for a tall drink and then again at the next one to empty the bladder of said drink and to buy a new one! Steve never did get the hang of this, Carla even had a jingle going every time she spied one! Doug and Carla were very good sports and the great thing is, we are still friends!

Sedona:

Steve took this picture of the beautiful red rock right off Christina and Mark's porch. The views they have surrounding their home are incredible. They put up with us for four nights and we had a great time.

While in Sedona we threw together a last minute party making new friends and enjoying Mary Ann and Dan whom we had not seen in several years since they seem to always be flitting between Hawaii and Sedona.

One thing I truly loved about our visit in Sedona was visiting with my grandsons, Keenan and Rylan. I'm working on a formula for bottling energy, these guys are the first to wake up and the last to hit the sack at night! Stay tuned for the friends and family discount!

Another fun thing was learning how to make soap! Christina's latest hobby is soap making and that is a really, really good thing because she always has wonderful smelling bars to give away! I never realized there was actual danger in making the stuff. I wanted to take a picture of her with all her "soap making gear" on, but she wouldn't hear of it!

We loaded up the car and headed off to Mike and Jeanette's place near St. George, Utah. This is a picture of the Three Bears Sandwich Shop. Oh wait, that's FOUR Bears Sandwich Shop. We love Mexico and we love it's food but there is some sort of comfort derived from a Rueben sandwich and milkshake. Yum!!

The Twisted Forest in Utah is amazing! It doesn't matter in which way you turn, you will see trees that have twisted and that have taken on shapes of their own just by weather and age. I saw some sort of animal in this one!

Mike and Jeanette are wonderful hosts, not only did they open up their house for all four of us but took us sight seeing and truly showed us the "world" they live in. This picture was taken of them in Zion National Park. If you hit "older posts" you will see the rest of our trip! You are almost done!

While we were having a great picnic lunch packed by Mike and Jeanette I happened to look down and this rock was laying there! How great is that?

This was the funniest thing that happened on our trip! Right after parking our car to see some of the beautiful Zion sights, this bus load of French Tourists started photographing our license plate! They seemed very excited about it! Hmmmmm.....

Home Again!

We made it!!! Here's Doug unloading all his crap, I'm sure there's more! All in all it was a great trip back to the Bay Area, thanks Doug and Carla for putting up with us! We would do it again!

Happy Birthday Shelby

You were so cute and now you are just gorgeous! Happy birthday Shelby, we love you.

The Folks

This just in from Dad and maria! They are well and hunkering down for the summer where the temps are so high you don't even want to stick your head out of the door in the daytime! Thank goodness for air conditioning!

Another Season

Well, it's time to head north again as the weather turns warmer day by day.

It has been a very busy season for us here. We had a great time with all the cruisers we were surrounded by: Doug and Carla, Marv and Ardy, Bill and Linda, Jamie and Behan (and crew), Dot and Brian, Janie and Cam and Jana and Richard, Glenn, Mark and Richard. Okay, I probably left someone out and I'm sorry.

Our second Ana-ual Flan party was a great success, lots of flan and Steve and Kay brought some killer chili. We enjoyed a couple of Brian and Fern's parties as well as Wiley and Carol's. We attended our first "Dia De Los Reyes" party at Judy and Alex's followed by the wonderful "Tamale Fest" at Roz and George's, attended my first "granny" shower which was very memorable because that afternoon I fell from my bike and broke my wrist! By the way, it was a girl, Kelsey!

Oh yeah, Mike and Jeanette talked us into buying a little place in Bahia Asuncion which we are really looking forward to using.

I cannot believe we've been in La Paz eight months. We are headed to the boat where there is already a 4th of July party in the works. We expect our friends Brian and Fern to join us for the party. Later in July Mike and Jeanette will spend a few days with us and then at some point Judy and Alex! Isn't that great? We get to keep seeing our La Paz buddies!

Hasta Luego