Playing Hooky

We've been having a love/hate relationship with the Golden State since moving here in April. It's nice for me (Jess) to be back around people I know and the places I grew up, but the heat and overdeveloped landscape is killing us. But amazingly enough it only takes about an hour to get away from everyone.

This last Tuesday I (Jess again) woke up feeling under the weather and tired of people. So we took off to explore Northern San Diego County.

The view from the southern face of Palomar Mountain


Outside of Julian


We followed a road out of Julian that I've never taken and discovered absolute solitude in the Anza Borrego Desert




Matthew still doesn't like it here

The Ecstatic Wisdom of the City of Angels

A few random updates on our life: First of all, we picked up a new camera today


What does this mean for you? We now have two good, working cameras instead of one and a half. Matthew is now able to take photos uninterrupted, at random, and without throwing the camera out the window. We also (finally) picked two flash units so we're no longer scared of the dark. Awesomeness is sure to ensue.

Matthew had 5 wisdom teeth (yes, 5) pulled this week. I left him alone for a few minutes and this is what I found when I came back:


We went to LA earlier this week...


... and did a little adding to the ol' sign collection






And that is our life this week. Thank you.