Los Angeles & Santa Monica - April 24th, 2011

Well we left Colorado Springs Saturday morning at 10 and drove for the next 24 1/2 hours to get to church in Los Angeles.  We drove through New Mexico which was very interesting, the landscape was beautiful and the houses were very different from what we are use to.  We stopped in Albuquerque at the Costco and continued on through the night.  I was very sad though because I did not get see any of Arizona in the daylight.  We drove through the night again and missed all the scenery there.  I was thinking I could probably look up some pictures on the internet of what we missed.

In the morning we woke up to beautiful sunshine and palm trees in California.  It felt so different, the weather was beautiful and finally the scenery was green.  We continued to drive and arrived in Sun Valley California (north of Hollywood and Burbank) in time to get changed and arrive at church.  We went to Grace Community Church, the pastor there is John MacArthur.  Mark and I listen to him on the radio most nights before bed.  We thought it would be special to be in his church for Easter morning.  The church was amazing, one of the largest churches we have been in.  There was about 3000 people, an unbelievable choir and an orchestra.  It felt so neat to be sitting there seeing John MacArthur preaching instead of listening to him on the radio, is was a very beautiful service.  We were so glad that we made it to his church.

After the service we went for lunch and decided to drive to the ocean.  We went to Santa Monica and walked on the 3rd Street Promenade and down the pier.  I took George and the girls down to the ocean so they could put their feet in the water.

After we left LA we drove to Indio to the resort we are going to be staying at during the week.  We are really looking forward to have a relaxing week by the pool and enjoying our last week of vacation.