A day in Northern California

View from San Francisco Bay Pier 39 ~ Where we ate a fabulous lunch at Bubba Gumps!!!
And of course.... the Sea lions and Seals

We also took a trip to Muir Woods... since this was a last minute trip to Muir Woods, we didn't pack accordingly to do a legit amount of hiking.... (neither one of us had any type of hiking shoes... we were both in flip flops), but we walked around for about an hour and a half looking at various Redwoods.

Me standing by a GIGANTIC tree!

Me and Brady standing next to a redwood... look at the size comparison between the two of us and the redwood!

More redwoods

Look how the tree dwarfs 6-3 Brady

And the ever famous Golden Gate Bridge

It was a great day in Northern California. We came out for Brian Otis's wedding (one of Brady's high school friends... the wedding pics to be updated later). We decided, kind of last minute, to take a trip up to Muir Woods and San Francisco, and then tomorrow drive down part of CPH (California Pacific Highway) and visit Herst Castle on the way back home. A very nice impromptu weekend vacation before summer school starts up on July 1.

Fathers Day at Ventura

We spent the day kayaking at Ventura Beach for Fathers Day!!!Hello's from the Burrill/Mandel women!

HELLO!!!

Me and Kris off and Paddling. I am in the red kayak and Kris is in the orange.

Mitzi, the kayak pro, getting me off and started.

Mitzi getting Kris started as well!

Oh yeah.... me workin in my life vest!

Hahahaha. still workin it!

Brady and me eating our In n Out at the beach.

Casey and Mitzi at the beginning of our beach day!

Corey kayaking in the Pacific!

The Ventura beach!

Rock Band

Rockin it out with a little ACDC!!!!

Santa Barbara

Strike a pose!

Santa Barbara with Lauren and Sean!

Santa Monica

We headed down to Santa Monica today to see the beach and third street promenade. Then we stayed down there at Barney's Beanery for the Lakers/Celtics game!!! While we were there Tom Izzo made the announcement that he was staying at Michigan State, which was such a relief, and then the announcement was followed by a demolishing of the Celtics by the Lakers and 2 AWESOME dunks by former Spartan Shannon Brown! All in all, I couldn't have asked for a better day!Linder popped on by to watch some of the NBA Finals game with us.

Lauren, Linder, and me after the game!

Nothing like eating some S'mores in a restaurant... after having a few beers!

The ladies at the bar: Gina, Linder, Lauren, and myself!

They boys: Wes, Sean, and Brady

Lauren and I in our Laker gear... we matched... purple and gold!

Wes and me: GO LAKERS :)

Brady and Wes sharing a scenic photo with each other on the Santa Monica Pier!

Sean, Lauren, me, and Brady hanging out on the Santa Monica Pier

And our two fabulous guests this week, Lauren and Sean!

Waimea Canyon

2nd biggest canyon in the United States... second to the Grand Canyon!