California Trip
A couple days ago, Mom, Johannes, Victor, and I headed down to California for a (really) quick trip to bring back my Grandma. I figured, seeing I don’t update much anyway, that I’d take the opportunity to make a blog post. We left Sunday morning and got back at 6:30 pm this evening. And the reason I’m doing one tonight is because I know that the longer I wait, the less likely it is I’ll make one. Besides I have school tomorrow!
This will be mainly in pictures – I’ll try and add a few explanations where necessary.
Still green and overcast. I think this was still in Washington.
Blue sky! For the rest of the trip until we left it was pretty much like this.
Passing through Oregon:
Entering California (I know – weird sign: I missed the actual “Welcome to California” one):
And the miles tick by… believe it or not, the trip actually went by pretty quickly: in fact it was the last half hour that was the hardest because we were almost there, but not quite.
Mt. Shasta
California is flat!
Sacramento!
Bad picture, but I snapped this for Lydia: see, we know of a place we can go to!
And we’ve arrived! This is a picture of my Grandma’s friend Monica, my Grandma, and my Mom:
After 1.5 hours of loading, they were ready to go! They left the day after we arrived at 10:30 am.
Mom
After the guys left I wandered around the campus and took pictures of everything.
Besides the college, the Christian Life Campus also has a high school, grade school, pre-school, church, bookstore, library, dormitories, and a radio center.
The High school
Radio center:
This is their “old” church building which they still use. It seats approximately 2,000 people:
The girl dormitories:
A rose I found:
The Hogue Library where my Grandma worked as a librarian:
They have some really old and neat books! It would have been wonderful to stay there for a while and just read everything but unfortunately I didn’t have time, so I took pictures instead:
This was a copy of a 1700s Encyclopedia. They had about 75 pages on Midwifery.
2 of the 3 volumes:
A copy of a 1611 King James Bible:
And a 15-something Geneva Bible:
The Haneys: founders of the whole campus:
The really old books:
These ones were about 110 years old:
After the library, we went over to the “new” church building. It reminded me a lot of Overlake Church in Redmond in the way it was built. Apparently it seats 6,000 people:
The Information Center:
Entering the Sanctuary:
The altar:
Some of the instruments: they also had a drum set (which you can see a little of to the right), guitar/bass, piano, and organ:
Front view from the stage:
Side views:
The front of the church:
And Grandma and I outside (as proof that I went):
And that’s all for now!
Galena
Looks like it was fun. Hope your grandma is settling in nicely.
Really fun post Galena! Glad you made it back safely!