First Earthquake...

"A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled Southern California on Tuesday night. The quake was reported at 11:23 p.m. and was centered around Yorba Linda in northern Orange County.

There was no immediate word of injuries or damage, but the quake was felt over a wide area.

According to the the U.S. Geological Survey, the temblor struck two miles northeast of Yorba Linda, about 29 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

It was felt from Long Beach northwest to Santa Monica, as well as in downtown L.A."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/44-earthquake-rattles-southern-california.html

So for those of you that didn't catch my Facebook notice... I actually felt this one...I'm sure though if I had been asleep I probably wouldn't have noticed it. Very strange sensation to feel the bed shake... it probably only lasted about 10 seconds but in that very short period of time I realized I hadn't really thought this all out. Things like... "where's the safest place in the apartment" came to mind.

The next day at work a couple of coworkers felt the aftershock but I must have too focussed in the meeting I was in to notice.

Good Bye San Fran and hello Yosemite July 2, 2012

Monday was a pretty full day --- ride a cable car to China Town and walk to Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf and then walk up the crookedest street. No fog so I can finally get a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge and then a drive to Yosemite (well technically the hotel we are to stay in is just outside the park.) It was a very busy day.

and the "elusive" bridge...

Sunday in San Francisco

We found a church relatively close to the hotel and enjoyed meeting new people. The schedule for the afternoon was to check out some of the Victorian houses (namely the Painted Ladies, but a lady at church told us about another street that had some cute houses), climb the Filbert Steps to Coit Tower and check out the Golden Gate Bridge.

First of all - I knew that there were in hills in San Francisco but I didn't realize they had HILLS. Some of the roads are crazy... definitely not possible to have in Winnipeg - nobody would be able to safely get up (or down) some of the roads if they were the least bit icy.

See... (and this isn't even that great of an example)

So the Painted Ladies...

I love this picture below... how San Franciscans park...

Filbert Steps & Coit Tower

And Golden Gate Bridge...


was a no show....


literally ... it was COMPLETELY covered in fog.