Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Lake Tahoe

My siser Alisha, her husband Sai and son Inoke flew into CA from Germany a few weeks back, and we headed up to Sacramento for the baby blessing of their son. We drove up a different way than normal and hit some sights along the way to Lake Tahoe where we stayed a night with my brother Michael, his wife Kim and son Jonathan. Here are some photos of our adventures from the two days:



High Sierras - loved seeing Mt. Whitney for the 1st time

I'm a sucker for waterfalls!

The climb we attempted...a short hike ended up taking us 2 1/2 hours...

Danny loves being outside...I think he would prefer living in the wild

This is how I felt about the hiking -
Mono Lake - they have amazing tufas sticking out of the water

More tufas

Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe - beautiful!

Hiked down and took a tour of this "castle" - the lady built it for next to nothing and entertained celebrities here

She bought antiques from Norway, or had pieces replicated - everything was VERY detailed!


Formal dining room











Michael & Kim

Fun lady clock

This is totally a castle door!

I love turrets!

Michael, Kim & Jonathan

Our fun little family

The grounds were gorgeous! I'm a sucker for flowers

Upper Eagle Falls (not as impressive as the lower falls)

All of us

Noyce family

"Fire truck! Wee woo!" - Danny

Fun cottage on old casino resort (only ultra wealthy could afford to stay here back in the 1890s)

Love this girl!!

Fun old trolley (yes, we were allowed to take a picture in this)

Up close and unedited... :)
We had so much fun exploring the castle, and this casino and resort. At the old resort they had all the cabins set up as they were back in the day. It was crazy to see how small the cabins were where the workers lived. It was a fun day full of exploring, hiking, seeing waterfalls, and swimming. I'm glad I finally made it to Tahoe (considering I lived only 1 1/2 hours away most of my life!). We'll definitely have to go back and try out the climbing!

Monday, April 25, 2011

San Diego

Since Emily was born while we were in San Diego, we kind of skipped over the pictures from San Diego.  So, here are some photos of us at the beach.  We had a wonderful time!

Our first day in San Diego.  We walked out on the Pacific Beach pier to watch all the surfers :)
The sky was beautiful that night!

Kenneth loves to watch the surfers to pick up tips.  They were amazing!

Our second day at San Diego.  Here is a photo of Danny with the Noyce grandparents.

It's kind of weird to see pregnancy pictures now that Emily is here! Here is our family photo on the pier.

Danny LOVES birds!  He follows them around every time we go to the beach.

...and Kenneth is obsessed with taking pictures of birds!

The Noyce grandparents showed Danny that he can see the ocean between the wooden slats.  So, naturally, Danny liked to stop in the middle of the pier, lay down, point down through the slats and say, "ocean!!" over and over again.  It took awhile to finally get him to stand up again...

While there, we spend a lot of time taking walks up and down the boardwalk.  Danny typically fell asleep during these walks...as seen above!

More walking!

Here we are on the beach...I love Danny's face.  He is so excited by everything he sees.

Danny and his shovel.  He filled up his bucket with water, and then would dump water onto the sand...or onto my foot.  ;)

Playing with grandma in the waves.  It is amazing how much warmer the water is in San Diego compared to LA.


Danny had so much fun in the water!  Kind of shocking, because usually he is scared of the waves!



And lastly, a gorgeous sunset photo Kenneth captured...

Well, those are most of the photos we got before I went into labor (besides the ones in a previous post showing Emily on the beach too).  Hope you enjoyed them!

Friday, September 25, 2009

Bear Lake

We're headed off to Bear Lake in northern Utah. Kenneth will be coming home on Sunday, but Danny and I are hanging out until next Friday. I'll post pictures and updates when I get back!