I spent the past 2 days with Meghan's family in Petaluma. I had a lot of fun while I was there.
First I took a bus up there and had a two hour lay over in San Fransico. I walked around the Financial District for a bit, taking a couple of pictures. Meghan picked me up from the bus stop in Petaluma and gave me a quick tour of the historical side of the town. Then we went to her ranch.
It was so beautiful up there. Wow. Just so open and pure, it was nice. She lives in this lovely, original 1930's house. Meghan got her brother Zack to remind her how to drive the four wheeler and then she took me on a tour of the actual ranch. There was just so much there! 75 acres is what she said and later when we were driving to a restuarant, her dad said they used to own a lot more, like 150 acres. Huge! Meghan also showed me some of her favorite spots on the ranch. For dinner, her family took me to Washu House (I probably butchered the name) to get a "local feel." It's the oldest roadside tavern or something to that effect in the state. It was a bar and a resturant. The bar was fun because back in the day people pinned money to the ceiling with a picture or business card in case they needed some more money for a drink. I had chicken a basket, pretty good chicken. Meghan, her mom and her dad all got rib eye steak while her brother got some shrimp thing. We watched some Buffy over the course of Wednesday and Thursday. We went to bed kinda early on Wednesday.
Thursday, Zack made pancake batter and Meghan made scrambled eggs. Then Meghan took me to Armstrong woods. Huge ass trees! I think the last time I saw trees that big was when I was in Yosemite in 8th grade. And they were pretty much all redwoods. Meghan was able to answer my few questions being a forestry major and having been trained to be a docent in the forest and all. We spend nearly an hour and a half walking around in there. I loved the serenity of it. Then we went to this town who's name I can't remember except that it started with an H and ended in a berg upon Meghan's mom's suggestion. We walked around there for about an hour but we weren't impressed. Lots of expensive art stuff. We watched some more Buffy and talked until her mom came home with some really good pizza. Then we read in her living room for a bit then her mom joined us and they watched Survior. I read through it thus keeping my "reality" tv virginity. After Meghan's mom went upstairs we watched some more Buffy but I beghan to drift off so went upstairs to go to sleep. I ended up staying up for another hour and a half reading. I finished my book.
Today Meghan packed up all her stuff in her car and her dad's truck. Then she took a couple of pictures of me with the pretty shell I bleached the day before with her ranch in the background. At first there were no sheep but then they were outside so Meghan took another picture and then the sheep went back inside. Then we came back to SLO. Meghan's a good driver, she was always staying within 5mph of the speed limit. Drove me, a speed demon, nuts though. But anyway, helped her unload and stuff and then actually cleaned up my own room. By rearranged some things I actually picked up about half a drawer's worth of space and some extra space in my small drawers on my desk.