California Weekend - 6/14/2010

Just got back from California this afternoon. It was a quick weekend. I left Jackson last Wednesday after work, got to Grass Valley Thursday afternoon, went to Rex's change of command and retirement ceremony Friday, to Kayla's graduation Saturday, left Grass Valley Sunday morning and got back to Jackson this afternoon Monday). It was a long drive (nearly 800 miles one way), but I really enjoyed it. South eastern Idaho and northeast Utah are really pretty and some of the other country is interesting as well. Of course the area of California west of Reno where Rex and Pam live is real pretty too.

I really am blessed to get to come to Jackson and do all of this stuff this summer and to be surrounded by such beauty. But, there is nothing as beautiful and as much of a blessing as your family. To see Rex stand up and give God credit in his retirement speech and to have seen Kayla grow up to be the person she is and prepare herself to go off to college in Abilene, sure makes an old man proud. Of course all of my kids and grand-kids make me proud, but it was just Kayla's and Rex's special days.

This is the crew in California this past weekend:
Me, Pam, Holly, Rex, Courtney, Kayla, Rhett, Carol and Norm Culp (Pam's parents)

Rex already has his USAF Retired cap on:

The Graduate

I thought this was a neat picture. As I drove past the Bonneville salt flats, the mirage made it look like the sides of the mountain were suspended.