My trip to California

I just got done talking with one of my friends and she said she had been checking my blog to see if I had posted anything new from my life. I know, I know, I promised I would post every week. I have been bad :( Anyway, I'm sitting in Chuck's hospital room with time on my hands, so I thought I would show you some pictures of when I visited Lindsay and Gabe a couple weeks ago. My sister, Pat, was supposed to fly out to LA with me, but unfortunately, she became ill and couldn't make it. Jim doesn't have any vacation days, so I decided to go by myself. I couldn't disappoint Gabe and Lindsay :) This sign was at California Adventure and I snapped it. Doesn't it look like a postcard?

This boulevard looked so typically California that I had to snap it.

Gabe works at the main office of Disney, in Burbank as a contract employee, so he is friends with a lot of the Disney employees. One of his friends met us at Disneyland and escorted us through the turnstiles for free. We were each able to get a park hopper pass which enabled us to go between Disneyland and California Adventure. What a lot of fun we had. And when you get in for free, you don't feel the pressure to "get your money's worth" like you do if you pay big bucks to get in. So we had a great time riding the rides. The parks were not super busy, so that was even more fun. We especially liked Space Mountain. We rode on it a couple of times.

Gabe took Monday off and I had been wanting to go up into the mountains, because it had rained in LA on Saturday, which meant snow for the mountains. This is the view of the mountains from Gabe and Lindsay's street by their house. I know you must get used to the view, but I didn't. I love mountains.

This was Mount Baldy skiing area. We packed a picnic and ate lunch here while we watched the skiers come down the mountain.