There's Ridgecrest down in the valley. The town is here because the Navy operates a base that develops all kinds of secret weapons and equipment. Every once in a while you'll be in your house, or in a grocery store, or driving down the street or whatever and there will be a gigantic BOOM, the ground will shake, then you'll look out towards the base's missile range to see a cloud of smoke billowing into the air.
We worked on mom's new house; ripping out a bunch of junk the old owners had in their yard: an ugly shade awning, a ghetto shed, hundreds of red cement blocks used for landscaping, and a tortoise cage. We also fixed up some things inside: plumbing, storage space, etc...
We went for a hike up in the mountains above town.
Mom braving the desert bleakness.
Angela sporting a vintage 80's red capilene mom gave her.
Hiking.
At the top! It was great to see mom for a week. We saw her classroom, went to church in her ward where all the men are engineers on the base, ate out at a Mexican restaurant, and watched a documentary about climbing in Yosemite. It was good to be home.
We also went to LA for a day to visit Angela's brother Ryan and his family. We went out to lunch with Ryan at "Simply Pho You". Then Ang and I toured her mission area. Once Byron, Juliet, and Olivia finished school, we saw them and Kie and Ryan at their new house and went out to dinner. We had a great trip!
5 comments:
Looks like fun! Your mom's town looks just like Moab to me, but I admit I have an uncultured eye for outdoors stuff...
Any pics of Ryan and Kie? I'm jealous! Love you guys!
fun. I like you blog
Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! And that desert hike actually made me long for silence. It looks so barren, yet so incredible peaceful. Glad you guys had fun out in California! And I bet your mom was grateful for the help in her yard.
What a fun trip! Looks like you did a lot of work for your mom! I love the individual shots from the hike... Brian looks quite contemplative in his. :)
Thanks, Bry and Ang! You did a ton of work in a short amount of time, and, Lindsey, just for the record, Ridgecrest does not look like Moab. Brian was highly selective in the shots he chose to make this 'ol Mojave Desert town look as good as possible. In fact, Angela saw it at its worst--the dump, the aluminum recycling place, the brick yard dump, etc.
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