Jenny and Jerry's visit to CA

We've been lucky to have multiple visitors while hanging out in the Bay Area (thank you Kip for having an extra guest room and lots of hospitality!).  Two more parents came to see us last week, John's parental units Jenny and Jerry.  Welcome back!

John suggested we check out the Moffett Field museum, and we were happy that he did.  It's a small building containing a bunch of great artifacts and a couple funny and helpful docents.  Plus this is by far the closest we've been to Hangar One at Moffett Field, very cool (posing with our electric Leaf):

The hangar was built to house military dirigibles back in the early 1900's.  Yep, we had military blimps, including the USS Macon here at Moffett Field.  Not only that, but there were little planes that flew under the Macon, hooked ONTO it in midair, and were pulled up inside for storage.  How have I never heard about this?  Pretty amazing.

This photo was originally classified because I guess they didn't want to show the world that a dirigible could accidentally get lifted vertically while still moored at the front end (everyone was OK but the kitchenware ended up at the front end of the airship) - happily it's OK to display it in public now:

John and Jerry getting some jet fighter training:

Hangar One - quite the landmark (now owned by Google):

The next day John and Jerry went to experience ziplining in the redwoods - Mom, Kip, and I had such a good time with it last fall that we told them they shouldn't pass up this opportunity:

"Happy to be in a harness" face:

One quick training run:

Climbing up the suspension bridge to start the tour in the tall trees:

Jerry's in this picture, sort of:

John moving through the redwoods at high speed:

Having fun at 150 feet in the air!

Jerry coming in for a landing:

An interesting shot from my perspective on the sidelines:

Afterward we went down to Santa Cruz for lunch, ice cream (Penny Ice!), and a brief stop at the ocean:

Hardcore surfers in the middle of winter:

Another quick stop in Watsonville so John could finish up a solar job; also a look at his new telescoping ladder:

That all was mostly just a prelude to a bigger adventure... we picked up a rental car and started driving east.  Along the way we found some snow, including in the bed of this truck:

To be continued!