Steven’s parents left today after a nice long visit, and I have lots of pictures to share! We had a wonderful time exploring different parts of California together. The puppy was overjoyed to have more people to play with, as you can see in the above picture.

The first weekend of their visit we went to San Diego, CA and stayed in a lovely hotel in the Seaport Village area. We had a great view of downtown San Diego and the bay.

We were happy to see our friends Laura and Chris, who live in San Diego:

After taking a tour of the city, we had dinner Saturday night in the very hip Gaslamp District. Sunday we drove to a little town called Julian, CA. Julian was a gold rush town that didn’t turn into a ghost town because it was also a great place for apple orchards. They are now well known for apple pies, which we happily sampled

Julian Pie Company=YUM

We also toured the Eagle-High Peak Gold Mine, which was built in 1870.

Scary mine tunnel

From Julian we took the “scenic” route home, with some amazing landscapes along the way.

What a view!