High School Friends from Minnesota together in California

October 9 - October 13
My high school friends, Anna, Rachel and Kelly came out to visit. They arrived Thursday night and then on Friday, I had to go to work, but they spent the day in the city.

Then on Saturday we got up and went to Napa. Although three of us are pregnant we still wanted to go, at least Rachel could enjoy the wine!We started out at Flora Springs, they have a new tasting room and deck that you can relax on. It was great. Here is Al and I on the deck, overlooking the Flora Springs Vineyards

Here we are in the new tasting room. Rachel was able to taste for all of us!

Then we went up to the "Old Faithful Geyser of California" We got there just in time to get out lunch and then the Geyser went off, it was great. We were able to see it twice. Then we saw the few animals they had there as well. We had a beautiful day.

After we were done eating, we headed to the Petrified Forest, it is the largest Petrified Forest and it was really neat. Below you see Al and I sitting on a huge log, petrified log!

Anna, me, Rachel and Kelly. You can't see it here, but we were some mean volleyball players when we were in high school:)

On Sunday we headed to The Redwoods. We had a great time and saw a lot of big trees as well as some deer.

Here we decided to climb into the Redwoods a little to get a good picture.

Then we got back and relaxed at the house, again we had another wonderful day. I made lasagna and we were able to chat and catch up more. The girls had to leave on Monday morning, so we enjoyed talking the rest of the night.