Terry & Janelle visited Crystal and Thomas over the long President's Day weekend and enjoyed a variety of weather.. lots of rain, cool but sunny afternoon for an outing and hike and a little snow fall a few miles away. The bridge we visited was listed as the highest bridge in California and was located near Auburn up in the gold country. It definitely was worth the hour's drive from the Coppin's home and loaded with history of the early years of gold history and railroads.Grandpa jumped into the fray of good old fashioned snow ball fight with the grand kids.. Bryce and Curtis landed a couple of cheap shots with big snow balls but I returned their fire!
Curtis and Bryce couldn't move fast enough to climb all the hills and ran out on the the Ridgeway bridge which was fairly long and windy. Thomas was a good sport and hiked back to the van and then drove across to pick us up on the other side.
We found a neat hike of a couple of miles along the mid-fork of the American River which included this really cool railroad bridge which in it's time was an engineering marvel since it was one of the early concrete bridges.
I took Kelly and the boys down to Folsom prison and we visited a gift store and museum which was a close as I ever want to get to a major prison. It was however, interesting and rather sobering.
The I-5 route home into So. Ca was closed to traffic over the "Grapevine" pass and we were forced to divert to the coast and come down which made the trip home about 9 hours.
We really enjoyed our visit, playing a lot of new games with our children and grandchildren (including a cool train game) and just had fun hangin' with the Coppins. See Ya' soon, Terry and Janelle
