Salmon Hole and Castle Crags--A Weekend Outdoors

We had a few friends stop through Chico on their ways north or south through California, so it was really nice to have a few visitors to liven things up here. Our friend, Bill, and his kids and niece stayed a night with us, and we enjoyed a fun day swimming and hiking with all of them.

We had to take them to one of the best places in Chico (in our opinion), Salmon Hole. An awesome place to swim, it takes a short little hike down the cliff to this clean, calm, and most important, COOL place to swim. Michael and I love it!

Salmon Hole

After we finished swimming, we got our visitors loaded up in their car, and we followed them up I-5 to a great state park called Castle Crags. A 5-mile round-trip hike took us up to the Crag pinnacles that the park is named for. As you can see from this picture, Michael was feeling more adventurous than a mere 5-mile hike. Which trail do you think he took?

Don't you think Michael could be related to them?

Mount Shasta

View from almost the top

And here's some proof that I was on this hike, too. :-)

Dallas! Time to Cowboy Up!

Alright, it's been quite awhile since I updated the old blog, so here's some of what we've done this summer...

Our good friends, Ernie and Jennie, got married in Dallas at the end of June. We flew out to Texas to see them get married, and aside from the intense heat and humidity, had a great time. Ernie and Jennie are good friends of ours who we met in South Korea, and they became extended family to us in many ways. Naturally, we miss them a lot, now that we are on opposite sides of the world. Congratulations again, you guys!

Michael, Eryn, Jennie, Ernie, Dr. Terry Casino (our old pastor from Korea--he's Filipino, though, not Korean). Note that Michael's shirt is wet from sweat, not a spilled drink. Aside from attending weddings, sweating was our number two activity of the weekend.

Our short stay afforded us minimal sight-seeing, but we did go to Forth Worth to see the Stockyards, which was the end of the line when it came to the old cattle drives. In the picture above, you can see a genuine long-horned cow.

So that was Dallas, but the summer's activities aren't over yet, so stay tuned!