May trip to CA

Len and I went on a quick trip to CA for Buttonwillow convention. It was SO hot several days of convention with very little to cool us off. We tented near the fence in the pic below. We had a little "tent city" of 2 tents (his brothers used the other one) and one canopy for shade! We heard so many good spiritual things there, as usual! They have changed a few things this year there..took out all the palm trees and some others because of diasese, and put up neat looking umbrella trees that look sorta like palm trees for shade..pretty cool! After convention we took Len's parents big van and headed for their house about 2 hours away. They didn't have air in the van...so it was quite the endurance test putting up with more heat going across the dry rugged dessert!! But then out of nowhere there is many mountains of green...and even a few sprinkles of rain! Plus it cooled down about 10 degrees! I almost caught myself saying it was "cold" lol!! We spent a night at his parents and had a wonderful breakfast in the morning, thanks to Mike. Then we went to Santa Barbara with Len parents and his grandma. We went to a couple stores, eat pizza by the ocean, and got a pic of our group (see below) taken by a US navy guy! Not thinking that we were by a LARGE body of water, I didn't think to put sunscreen on this day cause we were ONLY there for an hour or two.....got a sunburn...not too bad tho:) Even tho I had some sunscreen on at convention I didn't get a sunburn when it was in the 100's...guess the temp doesn't matter for sunburns!! It was sad to get on the airplane to head back to MN. We took a small plane to LA first! It was awesome because it flew near the coast nearly the whole time..so neat! I love CA:) :)



Len and I at convention on Saturday....sunday it was 105, not much cooler this day either tho!!

Lens aunt, grandma and mom at convention cooling off in the shade..if there was any cooling off:P cool pic of CC in the sunshine:)

Len and I in Santa Barbara

The whole gang in Santa Barbara