The Lopez Life

{Missing this place}

~Korbel~

Green, tall trees, beautiful views.....missing Northern California today.  It's nothing like Arizona. Can't wait until we visit family again in September for Jamie's wedding.

 

 

 

 

{On This Day Last Year.....}

We were here.......

Goat Rock State Beach - Bodega Bay, CA

 Oh how I miss the Northern California Coast. So green, lots of vineyards and just plain gorgeous! We'll be visiting again the last week in September-2012 for Jamie's wedding.  

 

 

{Bodega Bay}

We love the Northern California coast line!  This trip we had a couple of less days to do things since we where visiting over Christmas.  The day before we headed home we decided to just spend the day along the coast.  We went the opposite way we normally would go since we went from Jamie's house.  We went down hill for most of the ride along a very narrow road off of a cliff that went right up to the ocean. 

We stopped to take a picture once we got down to lower ground. 

 

Then all of the sudden about 6 cows decided they wanted to cross the road.  It's their land and they didn't care we were driving by.  They took their time too. 

 
 
We reached Goat Rock Beach.  Our favorite beach.  Now you can't swim here. Well, I guess you can if you want to risk losing your life.  The rip tides are huge and one time my mom, dad and sister were hit by one.  They were so lucky they weren't swept out to sea.  (they had come to visit me and I had to work that day so I didn't go with them.  I guess I should have warned them about the rip tides). 

Anyway Goat Rock beach is big and it's in two sections.  We always go to the right part first.

 
I should of gotten a picture if the high waves.  Next time.

 

Then we went to the left side of the beach.  Here's "The Rock"

 
It's far out.

Robert climbed out onto the rocks.  I wasn't nervous at all!  ;)

 
 

 

Then Robert said, "what's that??"

 
note: the above photo was not posed.  He just happened to be pointing and I just happened to be snapping away.  This is why I love taking pictures.

 
**a little too close to the rip tides....

 
He made his way over to the washed up tractor.  It was rusted and just stranded there.  I assume it fell off of a large boat and washed up on rocks.   Robert brought a small piece of the tractor home.  Wonder where I'll put that?

Then we headed into town (Bodega) and  had the best lunch.  We all shared fish and chips and had clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. 

{California was fun!}

 

We had a lot of fun spending Christmas in Northern California.  Came home a day early so we could catch up here at home (glad we did since we missed a huge storm that hit today).  We slept in late.  I have been doing laundry all.day.long.  It's raining here today and cold!  Staying in and relaxing.  We go back to work tomorrow.  I'll post more pics later and tell more about our trip.

**photo of Dave and Robert at Goat Rock Beach in Bodega Bay.  

Fun stuff!

Dave flew home from Northern California today.  He bought me a few surprises!  This gorgeous Lotus bowl from my favorite little shop in downtown Healdsburg.  It's a deep eggplant purple on the outside.  Then he managed some time to visit one of our favorite winerys, Korbel.  He also got me a cute bracelet from the coast.  I was so surprised.  He's a pretty good guy! :)

   

I miss this place!

The Northern California Coast! My favorite place is Bodega Bay.  If I could live there I would.  I was going through my pictures tonight and I don't think I ever posted these.  Goat Rock Beach is a dangerous one, but we love to go watch the riptides (from a distance of course.)  You can see how high they were that day.  They would of swallowed us up!  The life guard was even telling people to get away that day.  Further up the Coast is Fort Ross.  An old Russian Fort from the 1800s.  What a beautiful place.  I love the fog along the coast. I sure do miss this place!   

The Birds

Remember this movie?  "The Birds"- Well it was filmed in Bodega Bay, CA.  Dave and I love this place. We'd love to live there.  It's so beautiful!  Here is a picture of the church and school house that were in the film.  Yes, I ran down the street too like I was being attacked by birds.  Robert & Dave looked at me like I was nuts.  Hey it was fun!!  I couldn't resist.  :)          

Healdsburg

Today we walked to downtown Healdsburg.  It's so beautiful!!  The leaves are all falling off the trees and the weather was beautiful.  Here are a few pictures I took.  Click on photo to see close up.