so, got back from a trip to nor cal yesterday. Fun times. on friday, as I was driving up, I noticed an odd discoloration in the sky. like...a brown stream completely vertical. as we got closer, I finally saw the base of it and saw that it was a little tornado thing....I think usually called a dust devil. that was cool. phil saw it too...

on the way back though, everyone in my car was sleeping, but I saw a whole bunch of dust devils on this one stretch of dirt...there were like 4 or 5 of them twisting around the area...since everyone was sleeping, I guess that one was for me...hehehehhe

anyway, about the weekend. went hiking with danny, milton and jenny and with their peeps. about 15 or 16 people in total. hiked around muir woods. the beginning was cool. lots of redwoods everywhere...reminded me of Endor...(which...was probably filmed somewhere around there...) but then, we actually hiked. found a trail that just happened to be all uphill. that hurt...I'm out of shape, so it took all my concentration just to keep up. the top of the trail ended up overlooking the bay. that was nice. we ate in the shade and rested before we started back down. the walk down was a LOT better. actually felt good. and got to look around more, though the rough terrain of the trail meant you still had to be watching where you were going...which meant staring at the ground a lot...so that was good times....

after hiking, we got back to danny and milton's apartment and chilled. watched some dvd's I brought (at danny's request, I swear).

Sunday was a good day too...after church, a bit of food shopping, and a bit of hanging out iwth stp'ers, we went to fisherman's wharf, got some clam chowder bread bowls and then went to alcatraz...hhahahah!! YES!! finally!! It was pretty cool...I think I liked the boat ride around the island more then the actual stay...only because you can see the places you can't go to on the island, and those places are old and look it. like buildings along the island with old concrete stairs leading down to other parts of the island. not to say that the actual island is boring. its cool too. but the old parts that you can't get to look more fascinating....

all this added up to a good stay. can't wait to go back up sometime....