Carmel Mission Garden

Our first Mission stop was here at Mission Delores in San Francisco. This is really a jewel, very lovely. It's has been beautifully restored and maintained and worth a visit. So much California history is wrapped up in these Missions, it's hard to read it all and try to remember it. They all have lovely gardens and in future blog's I'll post a couple.

Then---sort of from the sublime to the ridiculous, I guess. We visited Alcatraz. It's very sobering. A difficult place to be incarcerated for many reasons. However, as I read about many of the inmates I realized how most of them were extremely hardened criminals and were reaping the benefits of what they sowed.

Our first Mission visit of the trip.

Interesting and disturbing.

Probably one of the more pleasant views within Alcatraz

Hey Dalene,

I think this is the closest thing I have to a belly picture. She just looks sort of round. =) I think by the time she gets up here for J's shower, she'll have a more pronounced belly. She is standing near a very old tree whose limbs are being held up by wires. The docent wouldn't let her stand underneath. I'll have more photos of our trip as the week goes on. We had a wonderful time, but are very tired at this point.

Mom and Marlene

On our first night in San Francisco we met up with Marlene, who introduced us to Thai food. We had something with pumpkin curry. Wonderful! We hadn't seen Marlene in a while, it was great to see her and she looks great.