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(Moderators: I may have overdone it a little with the pics, if so, let me know and I'll delete the unrelated pics in my last two postings.
I know you guys like pictures, so I thought I'd share some of my recent time spent entertaining the in-laws. My wife's family came to visit California for the first time from Ohio. (lol what a coincidence, I just realized "my city was gone" by the pretenders was playing as I type this)
Anyways, so we spent the week showing them the sites. We stayed at my Grandfathers beach house in Aptos, and we took them to San Francisco, Monterey/Carmel, Giant forest, and Santa Cruz.
The highlight for my father in-law was Giant Forest seeing the Sequoias, and the General Sherman tree, supposedly the largest living organism on earth. He's a sawer, and is really into trees; I think he thinks about how much board feet he could get out of them.
After we saw General Sherman, we decided to hike one of the local trails, well, we got out, and looked at the trail map to decide which way we wanted to go, then I turn around, and there is mister black bear about 10 feet from us. An expletive, got everyone to turn around and meet Mr. bear. At first he seemed to be catching the scent of my mother in-laws granola bar, but after we slowly walked back to the car, he went back to his own business, and kinda just moseyed along.
So without further adieu:
Me, father in-law, brother in-law, and General Sherman. Man what a massive tree!
Me, wife, and General Sherman:
This is what happens when you let your father in-law climb a tree. Brother in-law had to catch him...
Some scenery of the area.(Giant Forest, in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains) Beautiful area, I go camping not too far from here alot.
I know you guys like pictures, so I thought I'd share some of my recent time spent entertaining the in-laws. My wife's family came to visit California for the first time from Ohio. (lol what a coincidence, I just realized "my city was gone" by the pretenders was playing as I type this)
Anyways, so we spent the week showing them the sites. We stayed at my Grandfathers beach house in Aptos, and we took them to San Francisco, Monterey/Carmel, Giant forest, and Santa Cruz.
The highlight for my father in-law was Giant Forest seeing the Sequoias, and the General Sherman tree, supposedly the largest living organism on earth. He's a sawer, and is really into trees; I think he thinks about how much board feet he could get out of them.
After we saw General Sherman, we decided to hike one of the local trails, well, we got out, and looked at the trail map to decide which way we wanted to go, then I turn around, and there is mister black bear about 10 feet from us. An expletive, got everyone to turn around and meet Mr. bear. At first he seemed to be catching the scent of my mother in-laws granola bar, but after we slowly walked back to the car, he went back to his own business, and kinda just moseyed along. So without further adieu:
Me, father in-law, brother in-law, and General Sherman. Man what a massive tree!
Me, wife, and General Sherman:
This is what happens when you let your father in-law climb a tree. Brother in-law had to catch him...
Some scenery of the area.(Giant Forest, in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains) Beautiful area, I go camping not too far from here alot.
The cement ship is just a few miles from my house.
