Christmas in Northern California

Okay - here are some pictures from our Christmas vacation up north. Once again, there is minimal narration, so please enjoy the pictures!

Brian and I at our casino steakhouse dinner the evening we arrived.


Mom and Jim in the casino after dinner...



Linda and Bob...


And the Hokey Pokey, of course!!!



We took a walk down to Lake Oroville the next day ... it was very cool and refreshing and the sun had come out to play for just a little while...



Lake Oroville in the sunset.



This framed itself well....



We saw a deer on the hillside right before driving away. The lighting kind of reminds me of Gone With The Wind...




Changing the oil in my car. The needed to be done, badly, and I wasn't going to pay Jiffy Lube the $37 and some odd cents they quoted me.



Christmas Eve brought unexpected dinner guests.



And I must have been having too much fun on Christmas day to take pictures, but I couldn't leave the Christmas blog without a picture from Christmas dinner!! So here ya go! Actually, we took a lot of great poloroids, but without a scanner, I can't do much about posting them!

I LOVED my Christmas visit. I couldn't be happier to be close to my family again, in both northern and southern California. Oh California, how I love thee....