On Wednesday, we woke up in the desert and ended the day in beautiful San Francisco!
I thought this scene was so Western with the train and mountains in the background.
This sign marked the beginning of the 40 mile desert in Nevada.
At the end of the 40 mile desert, we started to see the Sierra Nevada mountains in California!!!
The scenery was so beautiful that I had to play one of my favorite worship songs, "Our God," by Chris Tomlin (the studio version, not K-Love)... so good!
Laura got in on the action and played "California," and it was such a fun and exciting experience to be driving over the mountains together!
We were hoping there would be a huge sign to take Laura's picture by (since Cali is her new home), but this was the best we could get. Still cute!
We stopped in Truckee, California since it's on the Gold Rush Historic Trail.
Can't you just imagine people panning for gold here?
The mountains were just incredible, and we stopped at numerous vista points.
This was called Emigrant Gap. There was a place near here where emigrants would have to lower their wagons with ropes. Yikes!
We're almost there! We got to San Francisco much later than we were originally going to, since we stopped so much during the day. It was so beautiful driving into the city at night.
After we got to San Francisco, we drove to Twin Peaks, which is a huge hill overlooking the city. The drive up here was steeper than the Sierra Nevada, but the view was definitely worth it... It was so magical and a great introduction to the city. We could barely see the Golden Gate Bridge poking out of the fog!
Jeremy enjoys reading every possible map/historic sign. I thought it was funny to look over the parking lot and see his silhouette against the sign.
We drove downtown San Francisco and checked into our hotel, then went out to explore a little! This is Union Square, a major shopping area.
We found Chinatown, which is the largest Chinatown outside of China! We spent a few hours going through the shops and eating at New Saigon.
