First stop: Sacramento.....with the Sollazo's, Days 1 & 2

On the road...head to our first stop...the road trip begins!

We left Monterey about 10 pm, so we arrived

in Sacrament about 1:00 in the morning....

Can you say tired! 

Thankfully, Andrew was driving because my eyes could not stay open.

We woke up to some poison oak on Bobo and an

earing dilemma for Devearaux (her earing back had

been pushed so far in her ear, some of the skin was

growing around it).  Yikes!  But we moved through each

issue and headed with the Sollazo's to Apple Hill in Sacramento.

We get fall!

 

 

Cutie Asher

Dev and Cici have fun together!

High Hill Ranch was our first stop and there were so many varieties of

apples, some names I had never heard of...we got a handful

to try them out....we also tried out the caramel apples and donuts!

Next stop....Mill view Ranch

We wanted to pick some apples so we headed to one of

the apple picking orchards!

At first we were told we couldn't pick apples from someone

in the shop and then Maria spotted the owner and asked if we could

pick and she said it was okay.  They had recently bought the orchard and

 were not wanting to advertise apple picking as they felt their orchard

was needing some work.

We were just all so excited and we had the orchard to ourselves. 

Deveraux's travel journal.  She had a couple of questions

to find out about apple orchards.

They were really good.

Maria and I had a morning coffee the next day, I love

hanging and talking with her and seeing what different

seasons bring her way. 

Asher, Bobo, Gabriel, Dev, and Cienna

What an amazing fall day we had with our dear friends.

We are thankful every time we are with the Sollazo's.

We are so blessed our Maui friends got to also be our California

friends and we are really hoping they move back soon to Maui!  It is wonderful

to share a history with friends especially pre-kiddos.  We find such joy in

seeing the ways God is blessing them and growing them!  We will look

forward to our next time to hang out, it is a fun treat when all members

of two families get along so well.....especially when you are talking 9 people!

(sorry Uncle Brian, I didn't get a picture of you...you of course made us laugh as always)!