California

Back in March or April I am not quite sure, Steve's niece Sariah emailed us about Bethie (her sister who lives in Florida) coming out to California for a visit at the end of June or beginning of July. I checked at work and I got time off. June 29 to July 7 I would be able to be in California. It didn't work out that way.

I told Steve about this off and on for weeks. He likes to procrastinate big time. He wanted to fly his plane but he just didn't find the time to do his currency flights before we headed to California.

On July 2 (I have already had three days off) I basically convinced Steve that we should fly commercially. Our flight was the very next day at 5:55AM in Denver. We live in Canon City and we had to leave the house no later then 2:30AM. We had to switch planes in Phoenix. We arrived in San Francisco around 11:00AM. Picked up our rental car. It is a 2012 Ford Focus

Got to his sister Carol's house and took a nap for a few more hours. It had been a long day so far.

On July 4 went to a Japanese restaurant(we wanted Chinese) and we met Sariah there

Afterwards we went to Sariah's house (it is the same house that Steve and Carol grew up in and picked plums and watched the fireworks from Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley all from her house.

Then the last day I finally got to see the Oakland Temple. This is Steve and Carol in front of the Temple.

We didn't do an endowment session but we got to go on top of the Temple and I took these next few pictures.

My favorite picture of the perfect day:

The next day we had to be out the door by 3:00AM to be at the airport for the 5:40AM plane to Denver. Slept the whole way home. Got to Denver around 9:00AM. Made it home around noon. Took a five hour nap so I could be ready to work that night.

It was a quick trip but a very enjoyable one. Can't wait to go back