Bodega Bay, Ca
4th of July Weekend
4th of July Weekend
Over the long weekend we decided to take a mini-vacation to Bodega Bay. The choice of location was purely for convenience. Every year our SKSDA EM has beach Sabbath at Goat Rock Beach... just minutes from Bodega Bay. Originally 5 families from our EFM were going to rent a nice beach house, but for different reasons we ended up with just 3 families. Our large family, James & Linda(James' sister Janie also joined us for the weekend), and Lisa(with her sister's family) rented a beautiful house on a golf course, overlooking the beautiful ocean. It was just breathtaking! The weather was somewhat overcast, but by Saturday the sun shine through... in fact some of us got sunburned!
Eddie got to play a round of golf, as we watched from our deck. We cheered him on as he got on the 10th green... right in front of our deck. I think we embarrassed him... oh well! It was just nice to relax with such a beautiful view. I know I got a lot of resting done this weekend, and enjoyed the cool weather Sonoma Coast offers. We enjoyed it so much we're planning on doing it again.
Eddie got to play a round of golf, as we watched from our deck. We cheered him on as he got on the 10th green... right in front of our deck. I think we embarrassed him... oh well! It was just nice to relax with such a beautiful view. I know I got a lot of resting done this weekend, and enjoyed the cool weather Sonoma Coast offers. We enjoyed it so much we're planning on doing it again.
This was the beautiful house we rented
Livingroomlook at the view from the house
Diningroom 
Deck... look at the view
Eddie enjoying the view while checking his e-mail
They even had a grand piano...Chris getting some practice in
my cousin Janie cooking us breakfast
and my cousin James "pretending" to cook... lol...
Janie & Linda with my girls
we even brought our dog, Buddy, with ushere's Buddy with Rachel, Janie & Lizzy
rare photo (again) of uswe both got more sun than we thought...
despite being at this beautiful place Lizzy, Rachel & Jeffreyfound time to play their Nintendo DS
our friends Lisa & Ava joined us on our weekend retreatLisa's husband was not able to join us
(we missed you Danny!)
here's Lizzy & TicoLizzy just LOVES playing with Ava
at Doran Beach (at Bodega Bay)...girls made water trenches
On Sabbath we headed up to Goat Rock Beachwhere Pastor Joel led our worship service
part of our Sabbath School lesson task...
to build a 6 men pyramid
We were all treated to a BBQ lunch (burgers)provided by our single guys (I forgot to take the pictures...)
but here are some photos of our family
Janie and Linda
Linda & James
me and my favorite cousins
Last but not least...SKSDA EM group picture
4 comments:
WHOA!!! that's what i call a house!! looks like you guys had a great time. when do we get to come along?
we did have a great time. so when can you guys come down to join us? we'll be there again in about a year!
that place looks amazing... and of course we do NOT go on vacation every month... dan has 4 weeks of vacation/year, so we take them ALL in the summer to get out of the heat... does that make sense?
aawwwwh, we looked like we had so much fun! that's because we did! thanks grace for organizing this trip. it was a much needed vacation for me and tico.
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