October Fun

October found us in Los Angeles with a stop at Disneyland.

We then drove up to Carmel and San Francisco.......

Carmel-where we spent the afternoon going through wonderful little shops and then going down to the beach. It was really beautiful and the water on the toes was so very cold.

San Francisco-where we spent time at Fishermans Wharf and had a wonderful lunch while being entertained by the sealions.

September ramblings

Japanese Anime is a favorite of Candace's. Every year she, and several of her friends, go to two different anime conventions. One in the Spring in Seattle called Sakura-Con and the other in Portland in the Fall called Kumoricon. She and two of her girl friends spend weeks working on costumes. Some of their outfits are pretty fabulous and others....well, they are just plain strange.

This year we will miss all the last minute preparations for the anime convention in Seattle which takes place April 10th-12th 2009 due to the fact that she has moved into a small victorian style house in Bellingham in order to finish her degree at Western Washington University. As you can see this is the disaster that she created while preparing to move out: