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California Day 5

We went to 6 Flags Discovery Kingdom.

If you haven't picked up on it by now, we really like zoos, aquariums etc. so this was a perfect place to visit. We rode a roller coaster too.

This is Shouka.

The Newsboys were in concert for free on the night we were there. Hilary saw them with friends a couple of years ago. They have a new lead singer that is pretty awesome. We were sitting 20 ft from them.

California Day 4

We got up early to eat breakfast with Sunny. Hilary worked at a day care center with her in college and she happened to live in the same town we were staying in. Good ole' Facebook reconnected them!

We stopped at Pier 39 to watch and listen to the sea lions.

We saw this guy at the Academy of the Sciences Museum. It was a really neat museum that was broken down into 4 parts. We spent most of the time in the aquarium.

We also went The Aquarium of the Bay. For lunch we became fans of clam chowder served in bread bowls from Fisherman's Grotto.Sunny told us that we should go north of San Francisco to Sausalito. We are so glad we did. It's a quaint little town with gorgeous vies. We got some burgers and found a picnic table to sit at while we watched the boats come in.

California Day 3

We took our time making our way to San Francisco. We took Highway 1 and the drive was amazingly beautiful. We stopped at Moss Landing and met this little fellow. Hilary became a huge fan of sea otters and sea lions on this trip.
We saw signs for a "U pick" strawberry farm. This is so much fun! The picture above is of the field we picked the strawberries in with the ocean on the horizon. We thought all of the agriculture was very interesting in California. It's very different from the cotton farms in Lubbock.

Heath doesn't really like strawberries very much, but he loved these. They were very sweet and juicy.

We also picked blackberries. It was the first day of blackberry season so the good ones had already been picked.

We continued on the drive and spotted these kite surfers
and this beautiful lighthouse. We made it to San Francisco and had some yummy Thai food. We stayed in Dublin and met Hilary's friend Sunny for breakfast on Saturday morning.

Coming up next our day in San Francisco.

California Day 1 & 2

We flew into San Jose late Wednesday night and drove to Monterey Thursday morning very excited to see David Crowder Band at the Spirit West Coast concert that night. We froze!
Even though it was cold at the concert, David Crowder was FANTASTIC!!! Hilary and I both thought that it was pretty cool that he put the words to the songs up on the screen. It made it seem like worship, not a concert. There was also corporate whistling (I am not sure if the ENTIRE audience was whistling along, but I surely was), a keytar, and a guitar hero guitar that he actually played during a song or two. I have now been converted to a DIEHARD David Crowder Band fan.

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Matthew West was pretty awesome too.

Jeremy Camp was the last performer, but we left early because we were so freaking cold!

Spirit West Coast was held at the Laguna Seca race track just outside of Monterey. It lasts 3 days and LOTS of people camp out and stay out there for all 3 days. Hilary and I were pretty glad by the end of the night that we weren't staying for 2 more days.