Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Big Sur and a California Condor

(Jim started us a toasty little fire on our first chilly morning)

We traveled north to Big Sur for our anniversary weekend (Nov. 21-22), and had a great time! Our day started off with Jim's "killer" omelettes! He loaded them up with sauteed mini bell peppers(red, orange, yellow), avocados, and cheese:) YUM!
The Master Chef at work on our little camp stove!
Don't even think about it, Riley!

We were surrounded by beautiful California Redwoods in our cozy camp:)
Of course we had to visit the Big Sur bakery!
The goods! I picked out a pumpkin muffin:)
Jim "Indiana Jones" deep in the forest during our Sobranes Creek Trail hike
On our way out of Big Sur, cruising down Highway 1, we pulled over to admire the view and were treated to an impromptu air show put on by a California Condor! I have only seen a condor in the zoo, so this was a rare sight!!! It was very exciting! The condor had a wing span of at least seven feet and "he" flew over us(low) for a solid five minutes! It was an amazing, majestic sight! What a great way to end our anniversary weekend! This photo does not do it justice! (We tried to download a great video Jim took, but we couldn't get it to work!)

6 comments:

Annie said...

It looks gorgeous! Happy anniversary! You two look just like you did ten years ago!

The Cooking Photographer said...

Happy anniversary Sue! It looks like you had so much fun, and Riley made me laugh lol!

Laura

Summer and family said...

Condors are really neat looking birds! It looked like an adventerous weekend!

Ashlin said...

That is so awesome! What a way to spend an anniversary weekend!

++MIRA++ said...

happy anniversary.looks like fun! i duno if u ever get this but ur jim looks a bit like clinton.maybe it was just at that angle:)

++MIRA++ said...

loool...i died laughing when u told me that he doubles as clinton. how awesome is that!yes, u do need to make a post about it!