It's hard to get back to blogging again after vacation, sorry it took me a few days!! We met Wes's parents, Tom and Sue, in California last week. They traded one of their time shares for a week at the Worldmark Resort in Angels Camp. It is about two hours east of San Francisco, which is where we flew into, so we spent our first night in SF, hanging around Fisherman's Wharf, going to Ghirardelli Square (where I just had to pick up some dark chocolate!) and taking Tom and Sue to Wes and I's favorite Irish coffee place, Buena Vista. Here is a picture of the four of us at dinner on the Wharf...

The next day it was on to Angels Camp. The drive there kind of feels like you aren't in California anymore. More like Indiana or some midwestern town. Very flat, and lots of farms. But then we came into Calaveras County, home of 22 wineries. Angels Camp was where our resort was, but the small town of Murphys, CA was where most of the wineries were, and where we spent a lot of our time. One afternoon we visited 4 different wineries, and one of them in particular, Ironstone, has a summer concert series, so we bought tickets to Earth, Wind and Fire for the next night. It was a wonderful evening at the winery ampitheatre, and the concert was great! Here are some pics of one of the wineries and on the lawn before the concert...

Another treat nearby was Bear Valley, a ski resort town and therefore, much higher elevation and much cooler than Angels Camp. The drive up was about 45 minutes, and it takes you through Big Trees National Park. The trees were beautiful, and very large....

And, I know you will be shocked.... We went fishing (or Tommy and Wes went fishing) on one of the mountain lakes.....

All in all, it was a wonderfully relaxing vacation!!