My October California trip…… Part 2
Welcome back. I thought I would give you a little more information on my trip so far.
Well it started with a 11 hour flight, followed by a 5 hour car journey… But luckily we stopped for dinner a little ways north of San Francisco… My friends, if you have never had a Double-Double burger from In-and-Out… The next time you are in California, put it on your to do list.
After putting fuel in the tank, it was on up to Redding, where my relatives on my mom’s side live. We arrived at our hotel at about 9 o’clock, or so I’m told. My eyes were rolling around in my head by that time, so I’ll just take that piece of information as true. But let me put it this way………I think I had the longest Monday in the history of man.
Awoke at 5am the following Tuesday. Now generally, in hotels in the states, when it says “Breakfast included” that means lots of coffee and a Danish pastry, however in this instance…… The hotel I’m in gives quite a selection, I’ve got coffee, juice, donuts, bagels, cereal, oatmeal, and self service waffles… That’s right WAFFLES!!!
Stop! Wait… Don’t get too excited. The process for making your own waffles if fairly cool, but then you get let down by the fact that they are a little on the bland side. Yes, but can’t we fix this with syrup? Yes…normally… But sadly the only syrup they have is sugar free…… And to be perfectly honest………It looks like snot when you pour it on, which, is not really something you want to be thinking about when eating breakfast.
The rest of Tuesday was spent visiting my sick grandmother, bless her, and checking out Shasta dam, and Shasta lake…..Which is more like Shasta mud puddle. But I’ve shown you pictures of that.
Wednesday, not much to report on Wednesday. Helped my grandmother rearrange her house. Went swimming at the hotel, ate turkey for dinner…anything else? Ummm, oh, watched ‘Expelled: No intelligence allowed’ I recommend it.
Well I have to go, but check back soon to see Part 3.
MJMatsen




