Sunday, February 24, 2008

Visitations

Becca and I are currently sitting in the Sacramento Airport waiting for our flights back to our respective homes. We had a good trip. On Sunday we went on a hike to Feather Falls, which is a beautiful 640 foot high waterfall. It was a 9 mile hike of moderate difficulty. However after 9 miles of just about any difficulty I end up pretty tired, which I suppose is kind of the point. I took a video of the falls too just for effect, but I took it's sideways and I don't know how to rotate the video 90 degrees. Any input on an easy way to do that? I have had other times I wanted to and have never figured out a good way to do it.

Then on Monday we went ring shopping and purchasing as noted in my last blog

On Wednesday we went up to Donner Ski Ranch to go skiing. It is a pretty good place to go skiing. There were a lot of slopes at our ability level, it had recently snowed so we had nice fresh snow to ski on, and it was not too crowded so we had plenty of space on most of the runs. The next day we went to Squaw Valley which was the home of the 8th winter Olympic games which were held in 1960. There were 27 events and 30 countries represented. It was the first televised Olympics and the first to use a computerized system to determine the winners. We took a cable car up to the top of the mountain where there was a nice display about the Olympic Games. We had talked about skating on the Olympic Ice but did not due to time constraints from an incoming snow storm. We were there for a couple hours then left to get back to Sacramento before the storm picked up.

I got a bit of a laugh leaving the hotel before going to Squaw Valley on Thursday. We knew it might be snowing, so Alan (Becca's Brother-in-law) had put his chains in the car in case we needed them. We didn't end up needing them but in the morning there was frost and we didn't have a scraper and we ended up using the squeegee. I just thought it was a funny contrast to find myself in a car with snow chains in case of severe snow but no scraper. :)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ring Incoming

This week both Becca and I have vacation and we met to spend the week together in Sacramento. I will try and do a few blogs to describe the events of the week, posting a few pictures along the way.
Today's blog doesn't have any pictures though. Instead it is about one of the main reasons we decided to spend this week in Sacramento. As many of you know Becca and I have been talking about getting engaged and, more to the point, trying to decide which ring to purchase. We intend to eventually live out in this area so we wanted to purchase the ring from here so that it could be serviced and insured through the same jeweler. Becca and I had looked online and decided which rings we were interested in. She had then visited one of the jewelers in this area who carries rings we liked, but at that point the jeweler did not have the specific rings in stock for viewing. After that we had asked the company to order the rings so that we could see them on Monday. On Monday we went in, had a look at the rings and picked one that we liked. Then Becca left so I could pick out the diamond on my own and pay for the ring. That way there is still at least a little suspense about what it will look like. I should get the ring within a month. When and how will I propose? Still working on that. And besides, Becca reads this blog so I couldn't say anyway.
If you're highly anxious about it I can tell you how to see the ring.
Guess that's all for the night. I'll do another blog in the next day or two.