Lets get down and DIRTY!

Ok, time to catch up to today!

Monday we woke up got packed and headed out YET again! up highway one. Why? Because even though its only five hours to San Francisco, we like to take the LONG way....the SLOW way......So, highway one it is, and boy it was fun! (and long) The coast here is beautiful....But NOT the east coast! There are lots of farms and more farms....oh look ANOTHER FARM! but its neat to see where our salads come from.

THE DAY CAME TO AN END! WHAT!? Yep, five hours, right? HA! We were still over two hundred miles from San Francisco, and not a beach in site. Ok, so there were beachs, and tons of it. But it was FREEZING, and we had to back track because of the fires that were on highway one....Crazy I know, but its amazing how God works sometimes. Changing our plans.....Gosh! Next time I will phone ahead to the big man upstairs....haha.

It really wasnt that bad. We stayed in a littler town called Sansimeon. Very sweet and low key. We got some good sleep, still cold, but we are having fun....right?

Day Four: Lets try for the beach outside of San Francisco..............Huh?
Bad IDEA! It just got colder, and the mountains got taller, and the drop off was AMAZING! Driving through 101 to get back to highway one was neat, again. More SALADS! We also stopped randomly at a mission. One of the oldest, actually number 16th in line of about 20 something missions here in California. It was so cool. Sad though because the building just suffered a HUGE earth quake last week, and the OLD chapel is falling apart. They say it may take upto five years to get it where people can go in it again....yikes! ONWARD! More highway one, and one more mission....(two) This one would be a doosy! And a stop into the ARMY BASE! Well, it was a rough one. We were stopped at the gate and asked for ID's from both of us, prrof of car insurance, and a bunch of other papers. Well my wonderful mother had all these papers in random spots in the car and the guys nearly flipped when she jumped out to get these papers. HA! What fun though. So we get onto the base, and into a training center, asked where the misson was and got a "uuuhhhh....huh??" So we turned around and left.

Beach front hotel, and sun tanning....HERE WE COME!
HAHAH. Yeah right. Did you know its COLD HERE! That is there is a cold front going through cali right now, and there aint no such thing as spending two days on the beach BURNING myself so I look like a Mexican when I return home. So what do we do? Go all the way to the CITY! And we did. We drove and drove. got back on highway One and drove over the cliffs. And into the City.....and I mean C I T Y! This place is HUGE! and what in the world do we stay?

San Francisco:
What a place, and in the dark, its like going into another world. A world you know NOTHING about and have NO idea HOW in the WORLD do navigate. And look at me! A little small town girl, who is lost in a city 10 times the size of mine, and I am LOVING IT! We went back out of SF and back into San Jose to find a cheap hotel. What does a room here cost? over $400 a night! Yeah, budget biggie please!.