Vacation Re-Caps

During the Valentine's/President's Day holiday, we ventured out to Joshua Tree for a long weekend and vacation with Karin and Jim. We stayed at the 29 Palms Inn in the Guest House and enjoyed our off-road/4 wheel excursions throughout the park, the great cooking of Jim (gnocchi and lamb in one weekend - oh my!), the geological treasurers of the Park, the hot tub at the Inn, cacti desert beauty, wind farms, and the antics of Leif.  Our favorite set of pictures are of Leif "serving or rationing" our picnic and keeping the apple for himself.

We had also trekked out to Utah to visit Gretchen's dad during the New Year's holiday - who would have thought that the distance to Utah from LA is about the same  as LA to the Bay Area!  With Mike, we enjoyed Zion National Park, the budding relationship of Anouk and Mike's cat, Frodo, and Leif's first experience of snow - yes, he did eat snow.  

We hope you enjoy the slide shows.