Here goes nothing....
WYOMING, surprisingly more boring than Iowa! This was the only state that I saw snow in besides California! The mountains were beautiful near Cheyenne but got old fast...perhaps it was because I had already been driving 9 hours by the time I got out of Wyoming that I found it so boring.
Tyson, Susan and I went out to breakfast the first Sunday that I was there and it was amazing! We all got the breakfast buffet which had wildberry french toast (um, what is a wildberry?) - YUMMY! I also had eggs benedict for the first time and I must say that I do approve, however the English muffin on the bottom was a little tough from being on the warmers and took a lot of elbow grease to get through. They might want to reconsider having something like that on a buffet.
I've been doing a lot of cooking and baking since I've been here. I've made Tyson breakfast almost every morning (I think inherited my mom's fondness of cooking for the people I care about. LOVE YOU MOMMY!) This is a picture of some homemade hot chocolate I made. I really didn't like it. The recipe calls for a lot of dark chocolate to be used and really I'm just a sugar addict and milk chocolate or white chocolate are more my thing. The second picture is of the half butter sticks that butter is sold like here. I tried to find long sticks but they are only sold in small sticks! It's a good thing I find them cute ^_^ The butter, by the way, sucks. I've found that margarine substitute tastes better. The cheese is terrible as well. It's funny to see items with a seal on them proclaiming they are "Real California Cheese". I definitely couldn't sit down and just eat a brick of California cheese like I could Wisconsin cheese. I haven't really tried the milk yet to compare because I'm not much of a milk drinker anymore, however, I have found Almond milk out here that is California almonds so ...go California? You can win that one...
THANKSGIVING!
We had a small get together on Thanksgiving day with Tyson's mom (Susan), dad (Dave), their two friends, Becky (I think), her husband Eric, and of course Tyson and me! We had prime rib, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, homemade rolls, and vanilla creme pie. Quite a bit smaller than I'm used to and very different quisine. I missed Jean's stuffing, cranberry sauce, fudge melt-away's, and mama's pie. Can someone crop me into the cousin's picture please? ;)
BLACK FRIDAY! Tyson, Susan and I drove to Eureka to stay with Tyson's grandparents for the weekend. The drive there is completely through mountain passes and takes about three hours. Tyson slept basically half of the way, photo evidence provided. The trip is beautiful but the road is windy! I don't know that I'd ever be able to drive it confidently. When we got to Tyson's grandparents house, his aunt Judy and uncle Paul were there visiting too. His aunt reminds me a lot of Sandra and his uncle of Frank ironically. We had Mexican food that night which Susan, Tyson and I went to get. We waited for the food in an adjoining bar where Susan and Ty tried to teach me some of the basics of playing pool. I think I'll need a few more lessons to graduate to the level of terrible.
The next morning Tyson and I went out into Old Town Eureka to a small coffee and pastry shop. I got coffee and Tyson got a chocolate doughnut and Pepsi. They had some really amazing looking pastries and cookies but I figured I shouldn't have them after all the pie I had earlier in the week and all the goodies I knew I'd have later. After that we went back to his grandparent's house and out with Susan. She took us to the coast and it was my first time seeing the Pacific Ocean! It reminds me a lot of the Wisconsin coast but with much bigger waves. Everyone had their dogs out there and it made me miss my dog a lot. After that Susan took us out to an Irish pub for lunch called Gallagher's. I thought about going completely Irish and getting fish and chips with a black and tan but got a portabella burger and an Irish Kiss instead. It was delicious.
Eureka is known for it's Victorian houses and this in the biggest one there. It has a black-tie only type restaurant and bar inside that I can't remember the name of...Incabar, Ingamar...something like that. It is the biggest house in Eureka. Mom would have loved to see the houses.
After we got back from going out to the coast and lunch, Tyson and I went to the zoo. They had this random house thing there that was a memorial to someone that I obviously don't know but I found it really neat so I took a picture. There is another memorial inside to a chimp named Bill that lived to be 61 years old (about 20 years longer than a normal chimp's life) at the zoo. Apparently he flung poop at people. I thought my brothers would have liked to see that happen.
That's all that I have pictures for right now...I'll try to update this every few days so that there are more detail to my posts. I'll take pictures of Redding and the new digs tomorrow to show tomorrow!
Much love :)
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