Sunday night, November 28, 2010, we visited the Oakland, California, temple grounds. We are standing by the visitor's center with the city night lights in the back ground. From left to right, we are VerNon, Bernice with little Evelyn Coy, our daughter Debra, then Brad Coy with daughter Lilian on his shoulders and his wife, Meredith at the right.

Our daughter Debra and her husband Kent took us to the Muir Woods National Park to celebrate our sixty first wedding anniversary. The trees are being preserved so people can enjoy a part of nature that mibht have been destroyed for financial gain if not protected.

On Thanks Giving Day, November 25, 2010, two days after our sixty first anniversary, our daughter, Debra, and her husband, Kent, took us to visit Muir Woods National Park north of San Francisco, California. We enjoyed seen those hug readwood trees some of which were over 250 feet tall and were hundreds of years old. We enjoyed the two mile hike that we had to make to see thes impressive trees.

This is our beautiful little great granddaughter, Evelyn Coy, at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, CA with her father Brad Coy. She thought that this stuffed dog needed some loving. Brad, Meredith and their daughters Lilian and Evenlyn live in Oregon near Salem.

Here we are in San Francisco, CA at the Fisherman's Wharf. We just finished eating some clam chauder served in a sour dough bread bowl. This took place Nov 27, 2010. We are in Californica visitng Debra, our daughter, and her husband, Kent. Brad and Meredith Coy with their two daughters, Lilian and Evelyn, drove down from Oregon to be with us. We are having a wonderful time.

Here we can see a small part of the large in-door swimming pool. The pool is ten feet deep all over with a high diving board. It is beautifully decorated with blue tile all over the room even on the bottom of the pool. We visited the Hearst Castle on November 20, 2010

This a view of the front of the Hearst Castle that we visited Nov. 20, 2010. William Randolph Hearst was the new paper magnate who spent some nine million dollars over a twelve year period building the complex which was comprised of a number of guest houses, two swimming pools, a tennis court and acres of gardens. There were statues from all over the world plus many other imported things like tapestries, paintings and artifacts.

This is one of the guest houses that are part of the Hearst family complex near Cambria, CA.

This is one of the swimming pools that we saw at the Hearst Casle near Cambria, California. (Nov 20, 2010)

On Friday, November 19, 2010, we drove from Belmont, California, to Cambria, California, with our daughter Debra and her husband, Kent, and visited the famous Hearst Castle. We were not disappointed in what we saw. We are standing in front of the visitor's center before riding the five miles up the hill in a bus to visit the castle.

This picture was taken the fall of 2009, in the mountains east of Timpanogas north of Provo, Utah, This loop has a special name which I can't remember. I may have been the Alpine Loop. Bernice and I enjoyed seeing how the fall colors were showing their brillance.

The double A-Frame in the background was part of our language camp in Sharon, Idaho, two miles up north canyon road. In 1985, we remodeled the front part and built a thirty-two by twenty feet addition, half of which is visible at my left. Bernice and I did most of the building but we did have some help from several returned missionaries who served with us in Honduras. I had to do all of the roofing all by myself.

Because it gets cold in Utah, the pioneers took advantage animal hides to keep warm.

This shows how the climate at Cove Fort in Utah makes it possible to have a very productive garden in the area.

This is a unique stove used for heat and cooking in one of the apartments at Cove Fort between Salt Lake City and St. George, Utah.

We stopped Cove Fort on our way from northern Utah back to Arizona. We were impressed with the fort and all of the living quarters enjoyed by the pioneers who lived here years ago. They did a lot with the tools they had.