Roadtrip!

Emily and I leave for our CA roadtrip tomorrow morning! I can't believe it! Time has flown by. We have our trip all planned out, and have decided on some definite places to stop on our way down:
1. Mt. St. Helens (maybe she'll be more active!)
2. Sea Lions Cave, in Oregon -- it's where hundreds of sea lions hang out
3. Crater Lake, Oregon, the deepest lake in the U.S.! I've wanted to go there since eleventh grade
4. CA redwood forests - we'll at stop at at least one of them

We also plan on driving part of the way down on Hwy 101, which goes entirely along the coast. You can only go about 50 mph along there, so we'll do the majority of the trip along I-5.

We're going down to the Sonoma Valley for my dear friend Karin's wedding. I'm playing my flute in it (and am the one and only musician). It's so funny to think back to Feb. of 2001, when I saw Karin for the first time when she picked my group up from the airport in Belize. Neither one of us would have ever figured that she'd be getting married four years later, that I'd play my flute in the wedding, and that we'd keep in touch and be such good friends. Craziness! God is so good with providing such an amazing friend for me :)

Emi and I hope to get to northern CA early on Thursday, so we can go horseback riding on the beach, set up our tent, explore, etc. Friday morning we are going fruit picking with the rest of the wedding party, and friday afternoon is the rehearsal, with the rehearsal dinner afterwards. Sat afternoon is the wedding! It's outside at Oceansong, a nature preserve type place, so the wedding is taking place on a huge cliff, overlooking valleys and hills. SWEET. After the reception, Emi and I are heading to San Francisco for a few days. We're staying in this awesome bed and breakfast called the Red Victorian. We'll be back in Seattle on the 19th sometime. I can't wait!!

Ok, time to load more songs onto my iPod and finish packing!