Not Much to Report

While Josh is back in Good Ol' Minneapolis for a conference, Lucy and I are holding down the fort. It's been raining like crazy here, so as soon as it let's up we get out for walks. On the bright side, while Josh is gone, Lucy snuggles with me way more!

Exploring Point Reyes

Yesterday Janelle and I drove over to the coast looking to catch glimpses of whales and elephant seals. Our destination was Point Reyes National Seashore. The views from the historic lighthouse where amazing with huge waves crashing to shore from the incoming winter storm.


While talking with the park rangers at the lighthouse we heard there where 300 elephant seals relaxing on the beach near the historic lifeboat station. On our way down we encountered some Happy California Cows. This cow decided to cross the road right in front of us. After yielding to the local residents we made our way to the seal overlook area. The elephant seals where huge! There where moms nursing their pups while the others laid lifeless on the beach.

A Christmas Hiatus.

We had an unusual Christmas this year.

When we got to SFO and checked in for our flight home, we were delayed to the point that we were going to miss our connection in Denver, so we ended up rescheduling for December 26 out of Sacramento. After a couple hours of sitting at home alone on Christmas Eve, we decided to make it special by heading up the South Lake Tahoe for the night. We had dinner, went to church and the casino that night, and on Christmas, we went tubing at Heavenly.

We finally made it to Minnesota on the 26th and had a great time. While it was amazingly cold, we still enjoyed seeing everyone and making up for the Christmas' we missed.

Big Trees

We saw...

really HUGE...

trees! Today Josh and I went up to Calaveras Big Trees State Park about 60 miles east of Stockton. We were both in awe of the size of these things. The craziest thing was the 30 foot diameter stump we got to stand on! We also really enjoyed trompsing around in the snow in our boots.

A change in the...

weather! We woke up to some chilly temperatures this morning! Sacramento broke records for the low overnight, coming in at 24º. Of course it was all over the news, "Frost on the ground!" and "You can see your breath!"

Top 10 of 2009

Josh and I continue to be members of Minnesota Public Radio and stream 89.3 The Current on our iPhones even in California. Every year they do a Top 89 of the year's new songs. Listeners submit their top 10 and they compile the list for a New Year's countdown. Josh and I both submitted our lists, and then combined for a master list. They are:

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros/Home
The XX/Crystallized
Hockey/Too Fake
Basement Jaxx/Raindrops
The Heavy/How You Like It Now?
Kasabian/Fire
Solid Gold/Get Over It
Gossip/Love Long Distance
Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson/Relator
Passion Pit/The Reeling

New Desk Chair

Saturday Josh and I drove into the city to get a new desk chair. My old one had a rip in the seat and I've been eying this one for awhile after a long search for it. It's a reproduction of an Eames Aluminum Management Chair. I wish I could have gotten the real thing, but we thought $1500 was a little pricey.