Trip to Northern Cali

 No matter how you do it. It's all day to travel to where we go in California. We left Tuesday March 5th at 8am to drive to the airport. Then fly to Sacramento (about 3 1/2 hours). Rent a car and drive to Redding (2 1/2 hours). We get to our VRBO about 4:30pm. We settle in and make a list of items to get from the store after we eat dinner.

We brought two ladies from our church with us. Meagon who has come with us before and Michelle.

I do like the drive from Sacramento to Redding as it goes through farm land. Miles of almond and olive trees. They were in bloom this trip.

The conference we attended began on Wednesday night. However we went earlier in the day to check in and pickup our registration packets.

The weather wasn't as good this trip. It was raining upon arrival. It rained some on Wednesday. There was a break in the weather when we picked up our registration packet. Doyle said if I wanted to try to see the eagles we would need to go that day. We had a few hours before the conference started so I grabbed my camera.

Since we had learned about the Redding Eagles we have been following them on their Facebook page and tuning in occasional to their live-stream on youtube. There are eggs in nest which makes for a greater opportunity to see one or both of the eagles. 

Here is the nest. If you click on the picture to see it larger you can just see the top of an eagles white head about the middle of the nest.

I figured it was a long shot whether I would see the eagles switch to sit on the eggs but I hoped.

I was chatting with a park employee who was watching as well when we heard the eagle in the nest trill. We both started looking for the other eagle. Sure enough the mate was just across the interstate in a tree.

I got ready as I was anticipating the switch was about to happen.

Here the eagle comes flying right over our heads!

Making it's way to the nest.

I didn't manage to get the eagle landing on the nest. I was still pretty pumped!

We met up with our friend Kamilla.

On lunch break between sessions.

L to R Michelle, me and Meagon

Doyle with Michelle and Meagon.

The white capped mountain behind us is Mount Shasta.

Weather was nice this day. In fact the sunny days were while we were in conference! Go figure!

We had a great time. 

Have a good one!

Kashton turns 11!

 Kashton's birthday was March 5th. We were flying to California that day for a church conference so I took him to lunch the day before. 

Vanessa put his name on the Ritz sign downtown on the 4th because the sign was reserved on his birthday. I was glad since I wasn't going to be here.

Kashton was an easy date. He wanted to go to Braum's. After that he asked to go to Funky Monkey. It's a fancy snow cone business using shaved ice.

It was there that I gave him his gifts.

This is the card I made for him.

He wanted some black Nike sports socks. Silly boy, he asked "how did you know". I have my ways 😉

Then he also asked for Legos. This kid is amazing how he puts these sets together. 

It's a plane for putting out wildfires. It has over 1,000 pieces! 

On my way to take him home we stopped for pictures at the Ritz Sign. That picture was at the top of this blog. I took this one so you could see it was on both sides.

Vanessa had his party while we were gone too. Personally, I think celebrating with him this way was more fun for us both!

Have a good one!