Sunday, August 16th

Wow...it was hot today!! I'm not sure I'm gonna like this FL thing, but somehow I don't think I have a vote here!! We drove from from Stockton to Santa Clarita today. I got to tell ya that the mountain views in CA don't hold a candle to WA. The hills are mostly brown with dead grass...very few trees. Well then again, there were a lot of trees in the places that Mom called orchards at the bottom of the mountains. Hey, maybe all the trees fell off the dead mountains and started growing in the orchards. I know I saw some orange trees and some grapes, but Mom said that place was called a vineyard. I also saw lots of corn fields both green and healthy and brown and dead. I saw lots of sheep and horses. I also saw a whole field of what Mom called sunflowers, but they were dead too. I don't get how those flowers can be sunflowers...I mean the sun is the sky and the flowers are down here? Oh and I saw those famous CA cows that are on TV and thought I'd ask Dad to stop so I could get their autographs, but then I thought, "Heck I'm cuter, and I have my own blog so forget those silly cows."

Mom plays this game on Facebook called Farmville. She said that seeing all these orchards, vineyards, and animals was like driving through the game as if it was real.

We have another magic bed at the hotel here so I get to sleep with Mom again. I wonder if Dad thinks I'm gloating when I just lay here and smile? No pictures today, but we'll be here for two days so I'll be sure I get a few Kodak moments out of Dad tomorrow.