A Saturday in January

A fun Saturday hike...in 75 degree weather.
I love California.

A perfect Sunday morning

The weather here in our little paradise has been full of sunshine and warm weather.

When we woke up this Sunday morning we were going to make crepes, and then threw that plan out the window when we were hanging out with our doggies on our front porch.

  It was a beautiful day.

So we jumped in the car, (without our precious doggies because it was a "date"), and grabbed us some coffee and went to get cinnamon rolls.  However, the donuts called our name louder, haha.  So we grabbed our empty calories and headed to the beach.

We thought we would hang out for a hour or so, well as it happens, we stayed all the way till lunch time, laughing and cuddling, and eating our donuts. 

It was a perfect Sunday morning.

Sunny Day

Sunday was a lovely day. 

We woke up late, ate a yummy breakfast, and grabbed our bikes and headed to the beach.

We rode down the trail in the sunshine and finally came to the beach, where we strolled hand in hand up the pier and along the sand.

We rode our bikes back down the trail to where our truck was waiting to take us into town to eat a fantastic lunch with two of our favorite people, Josh & Beth.

Lunch was AMAZING!

 We then walked around downtown stopping to drool over the mac book pro that we so desperately want, and we even got us some frozen treats.

When we got home we played with our neglected dogies and then jumped on our bikes again and headed to the Morro Bay Harbor Festival.  We drank a few beers and enjoyed some live music before heading home to our dogs once again.

We started up the fire pit, grabbed another beer, and threw our hamburgers on the BBQ.  We relaxed and laughed soaking up the remaining rays of sunshine before the sun sunk beneath the horizon. 

Our hamburgers, (although veggie), were amazing and we finished it off with some fresh peach cobbler, really does it get any better??

Anyone who has visited us here in Morro Bay know that during the summer we are blessed with a marine layer that keeps the place surrounded by fog, however, during the fall the sun comes out and the temps rise.

It was so warm all weekend and the sun shined all day, putting a huge smile on our faces, and a little color on our skin!

  

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!!

Conquering the Sierra Nevadas- Part One

Two weeks ago Aaron and I, along with two of our friends set off on an adventure.

This adventure was unlike any that i had gone on in the past.

We hiked from one side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the other.

It took us five days and was a total of fifty miles with over seven thousand feet of incline!

I have been on plenty of backpacking trips, but not one for five days. 

It was AMAZING!

I enjoined it very much and am ensured by my hubs that we will do this many more times, trying all possible routes to get across.

I took something like 300 photos, and will spare you all the delirious hiking ones, ha ha.

But i thought it would be best if i broke it up into two posts.

So here is the first half of our trip in photos...

Here we are all fresh and ready to head out over Bishop Pass!  (We went up and over what you see in the background behind us)

So this is Palisade Creek, and we were the first ones to make it across this year!!  The day before 4 rangers attempted to cross, and they sternly informed us that, "they aborted the mission", and that it was a very advanced crossing!  Ha ha, then us four stupid kids did it!!

It may not look that scary, but it is pretty deep, and moving incredibly fast!

Well we made it to the place where we set up camp for the second night!  That day a ranger did make it past the creek right after we crossed, he was out scoping out the trail before it opens soon.  He was impressed that we made it, ha ha.  He told us the rangers told him to keep an eye on the river in case he found us floating, ha ha!!

Our 14 mile day ended wonderfully with chairs and good company!

I will post the photos of the next three days soon, but that's all for now.

Have a great weekend!