Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Birthday weekend trip - Day 1

Corrine and I left for my birthday weekend trip. We worked in the morning and left Camarillo about 2:30 pm. We drove out the 126 and met Michelle and her family in Gorman at McDonald's. Corrine and I decided to take Ty along with us for this little get away. He was excited to go with us.

We drove up the 5 freeway and I can describe the drive in one way - BORING! Wow! I haven't driven this way in quite some time because we usually go up the 99 and stop in Turlock. Since we were heading to Oakland we took the 5. Corrine drove her car which was a birthday treat for me since I usually do the driving on our vacations. On our way up we witnessed an accident on the southbound side of the interstate. In fact, I called 911 to let the highway patrol know about it. Later I received a follow up phone call from the office making the report. We were happy to hear the person driving the car who went off the road and rolled the car was okay and she walked away from the accident.

We arrived in the Oakland area about 9:00 pm and we were hungry. We found an Outback Steakhouse and decided to stop. Corrine decided this would be my birthday dinner. It tasted very good. Our hotel was the Courtyard Marriott by the Oakland Airport. It is a nice one. We were all pretty tired, but Ty didn't want to go to sleep until midnight so he could be the first to wish me a happy birthday. :)

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