Our anniversary was actually in July but we didn't have a chance to go out of town until this week. Glenn & I took off Thursday & Friday. We planned to go up north of the city in the Napa/Sonoma county area. Glenn likes to bike up there & there's plenty of antiquing in the area to keep me busy while he rides. We ended up staying in Santa Rosa with day trips out to Petaluma, Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Bodega Bay, & we drove back through Sonoma & Napa today. I had read online that the Salvation Army in Healdsburg was huge so I just had to drive out & see it. I was shocked. Here's what it looked like when I drove up:
I think the huge building in the center is the office & residence, but it was still amazing. There were 5-6 houses scattered around the campus and each had a different theme. This big barn was full of nothing but clothes. The smaller one next to it had small appliances & household items.
One of the houses below had furniture and the other had all the good stuff -- nicer things that they pulled out and charged much more for. I didn't buy anything 'cause all the stuff I liked was in there & they were selling it for more than I would have in my shop. :-( All those tents that were set up had furniture and boxes and boxes of stuff lined up. Nothing was sorted & it was a mad-house - people everywhere sorting through boxes. Lots of people there back to school shopping.
Friday we drove out to Bodega Bay to look around & do some hiking. It was cold, windy, & foggy, but beautiful. As soon as we got there someone told us that the whales were right off the coast.
See him spouting above? It was really hard to get a picture of them. I'll write more about the antique shops I went to later.... gotta go move files over to our new external hard drive.
Eleven years ago today my baby sister tied the knot! The girls liked the groom's cake better. :-)
