Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Buzzing the Bluff

Today is our 30th anniversary. Because we're building the house I didn't plan on doing anything out of the ordinary but Cliff had other ideas. His friend Travis has a pilot's license and goes flying frequently in small planes. So Cliff arranged for us to go flying. He told me we were doing something special and challenged me to guess a few weeks ago thinking that I would never get it right. But about a week ago I figured it out although our destination was still a secret.



This morning at about 10 we took off from Palo Alto and flew west to the coast. We headed up the coast from about Half Moon Bay all the way up to our property. It was absolutely beautiful! We couldn't have been blessed with a better day for flying on the coast - no fog and abundant sunshine.



After flying over our house, waving at neighbors and taking a few pictures we headed inland to Petaluma, landed, had lunch at the airport cafe, took off again and landed in Palo Alto. What a blast! We highly recommend it! Here's a few pictures of the day.


The Golden Gate Bridge

Point Bonita Lighthouse



Two views of our house (it looks huge)


The end of the day, parking the plane and tying it down.

3 comments:

Jen said...

Woo woo! Happy Anniversary! Next time take us all!

Jessica said...

Wow, that's so awesome!! Your house does look enormous compared to the neighbors' houses...I bet the ones on either side are pretty angry about their views now! Oh well, too bad for them your laundry room has the best view now lol!

G&S said...

Hi Cliff and Julie!

I stumbled upon the new BLOG from Jen's site. Welcome to the BLOG wagon-hip hip hooray :). Really neat to the pictures of your new house, what a blessing from God. After it's done, Glen, I and Micah may have to come up with Ryan, Jen and the kids to help "inspect" everything. It's a dirty job but we can definitely "serve" in that way if needed (heh heh).

Happy construction,
G&S