One last fleeting glance at the Pacific.

We survived our ride back down the 5 into LA, Cali drivers are nuts!! They are nice and do not blow the horn at you or anything like that, but the will cut you off with smile, or pull right out in front of you with a wave, but they are nuts! I am calm and cool most of the time, but my palms were sweating all the way up the 5 a week ago, and the were sweating the whole way down today! So many cars, Fast cars at that and motorcycles, and huge stinky trucks! We did see a Fabulous Bentley..I bet it was someone famous. We are staying in the Venice Beach area again, the city was named after these salt water canals were built, they are beautiful to walk though. Louisa loved the ducks and the bridges.

We headed back to the beach for once last stroll after lunch, Louisa was thrilled with the idea and successfully got herself all wet and sandy. We soaked in the view of the sea and idolized all the beach front residents, then took our NH bound tired bodies back to the hotel to get ready for re-entry into NH....I have to admit I love NH, it is where my roots are and where I have chosen to put a few new ones down, but I really really do not want winter this year! I can see why people live in these beautiful tropical places. I guess I have to look at the positive, it would not be such a treat to visit these magnificent places if we were to live in one. This has been a wonderful adventure, and I am looking forward to getting Louisa back to her toys and changing table:) Where are we off to NEXT?????? Bye Bye Southern Cali. You have been beautiful!

Doing the Hula on stage with the hunk!

Sooo they had a Hawaiian theme tonight. Well they were looking for Hula volunteers, because of my Maui experience I jumped at it:) Notice my new Boots???A Birthday Gift from my hunky Hubby along with the new shirt and skirt. Cow Girl UP ....with Hula Style points. It was great fun, my buddy Karen came up with me, Louisa is in love with Pretty Laura, thanks for helping me chase her all over the place Laura!!!

Last Day at the lake!

After a awesome time at the ski lake, today was the final day of competition. You can see how blue to water is in the in the one shot, it felt like I was skiing on blue Jello!! Scott, my father-in-law Dave and I were standing in front of the tournament entrance wearing our competitors lanyard. You have to take the to all the vendors and get them punched, you get all kinds of Free stuff, t-shirts, stickers and chances to win cool stuff. Dave even got himself a new RADAR ski that all the pros signed! If you look close you can see the beautiful Mt's. that are to the North, South and East of the lake. There are enormous Cow Dariy farms out here, I mean 1,000 of cows at each farm, so you can imagine some of the smells we got..nice!! It was cloudy today at the lake which was a BIG change from the last few days that were in the high 90's!!! HOT HOT HOT!! Scott thought this rig towing the brand new MasterCraft was sweet, just like our boat minus a few add on's. Time to repack my suitcase and Louisa's suitcase, they have for some reason exploded all over our hotel room!! It feels like all week all I have done is look for things, and things that you can not just say oh well we do not need it, it is stuff that you need for Louisa! Have you seen the wipes?? Where is the bib?? What did I do with her spoon? Shoes, why can I only find one shoe??? anyone seen her blankie??? Room Key....anyone have a damn room key?? Scott can you call my phone...again!? Okay what time do we need to get up?? Do you want a snack?? Where are the snacks??? Baby...Baby where are you??? (this is her baby doll) Why can I only find One shoe??? Just a few of the pharses I have said over and over and over again. The reason I could only find on shoe half to time is that Louisa wants all the shoes in the one of the closets of our ajoining rooms, she will find a shoe and say dirty dirty dirty and go stash it in one of the closets like a ferret! She has done great, really great. Her new thing is to stand at the door and say "Ready Ready Ready!" Dada Ready!! So funny. There was an awards banquet tonight, Louisa and I lasted all of about five minutes before she was saying Ready Ready, we came back to the room she is nite nite on one bed and I need to get started on repacking the suit cases, we leave here tomorrow, and head back to LA for on night then homeward bound! Not sure the standing yet, I think ended up 4th out of 10 by a 1/2 a point! More pics to come:)

Going out in my sailor suit:)

We were heading out to dinner last night and had to get some shots of how cute Louisa looked in her Sailor suit!!

This was incredible!!!!

Well we found the Camera...long story short we thought it was stolen, but no it turned up phew!!!! We took a ride north of Bakerfeild up into the Mt.s to check out the Giant Sequia's. We had a day off from skiing to thought we should check it out:) So so so wonderful.
Photos tell it all, I was in complete awe of these Fabulous trees, it was so worth the switch back curves up the Scroll down for more pics of skiing.