Minnesota!

For my vacation this year, I went to Minnesota (surprise!). I cut my internship short by a week (which turned out to be a great thing) and headed off to MN for a solid week.

I went to Gull Lake near St. Cloud for one day and one night--such pretty lake. I dove off the pier and hit the bottom of the lake. I only had a couple of scrapes on my nose and forehead. My mom reminded me that I could have broken my neck.

Henry and I after dinner. Notice the scrap on the nose and forehead.

While we were there, I rode a jet ski. It has been years since I have been on one of those things. I almost wanted to buy one...

Owen and Al tieing the boat to the dock.
Little G waiting to take a picture (and to tell me what to do =)

Henry sporting a BYU shirt, waiting to go tubing.

I went to Lake of The Woods for my first fishing trip. The drive was another four hours from Gull Lake, which is three hours from St. Paul. Henry was a little bit bored in the car.

We spent three nights and two days up there --> Lake of the Woods.

Owen (and my relatives) just barely got out of bed for the 8 am trip

We caught lots of Walleye:

My first Walleye.
Holding my Walleye, trying not to drop the fish.
Henry and I with my fish

Henry's catch of the day.
Owen and his friend, Al, at the shore lunch

Henry rode in the first mate's chair on the way back to the resort. He stayed really dry while I was soaked from head to toe.

Part of the surf (this picture does no justice--the waves were 6-8 feet high)

Captain Greg kept the boat from rocking back and forth. Not bad for a first timer!

Day two on the Lake was a lot colder. Owen is trying to get some teenager shut eye while keeping the cold out.
You know it is cold when the fisherman is wearing a jacket.
Henry's catch of the day.

Owen with his fish (Notice: Al and Rick decided to be in the picture).

Driving to the MN state Fair!

Most of the time when I am in MN, we go to the state fair and the Mall of America. It's fun to have a little bit of Holly/Broadbent tradition.

The giant slide.

Thanks Holly's for the fun vacation!! Next year??

John Mayer At Shoreline

Seeing John Mayer last weekend was a lot of fun! He is a really great performer and musician. In between songs he was telling jokes and having a good time. I think that Kelley has all of the photos from that concert...but here is just a few from my phone We couldn't see the stage very well (just to the right of the lady on the left), but we could see the projection screen (left side of the picture) really well.
The view of the projection screen. Technology is great!

Opera at the Park

Last night, a couple of us went to see the Opera Lucia di Lammermoor at AT&T Park in San Francisco.I am generally not the opera-faring type, but on this occasion, I was all for it! We took the train from Cal Ave (as known as California Avenue station) to Fourth & King up in the city. Yesterday was so hot (even up in the City) so we decided to bring a few water bottles:
Those few water bottles seemed to turn into about 15 bottles! We didn't realize the large quantities of water we had carried to the park. The most exciting thing about the Opera was sitting on the grass of the park. We had our picnic on the grass as we watched a rather slow moving Opera.
This is Mikey (my co-worker) and her sister, trying to act like they are excited to see the Opera:

Chris and Mikey had the game faces ready for the action:

There were a ton of people at the park to see for the show:

We cut out at the intermission (we couldn't handle any more Opera at that point) to catch the 10:30 train back to Palo Alto. On the way, I tried for ten minutes to get a picture of this man's tattoo. You can't see from the picture, but his tattoo says "FAMILY."