I am very excited for 2010! I don't know why, but I just have good vibes about a nice even number like 2010! 2009 was an awesome year and I hated to see it go, I hoping that 2010 will be just as good to us.
The above picture was taken in Gilroy, CA on Jan. 6th 2010, at Chevy's restaurant. We traveled to San Fransico on Sun. the 3rd (to get my sister's four kids back home) we vistied The Exploratorium on Tues. and then drove down to Santa Cruz to visit The Mystery Spot, stopped at Chevy's and then back to Hanford on wed. night. It was an awesome family trip. Today we saw the Sherlock Holmes movie, I thought it was exciting and intense. I would highly recommend it! Happy New Year to everyone!
I am reading an excellent novel right now, "The Help" by Kathyrn Stockett. My sister-in-law gave it to me for Christmas. The detail and character development in this novel is absolutely amazing. It takes place during the 1960's civil rights movement, (era). One of the main characters, Miss Skeeter is a white woman, who recently graduated from college and comes back home to Jackson, Mississippi. She takes an amazing risk by interviewing 'black maids' and wants to publish their story. See amazon.com or goodreads.com for excellent reviews of this novel. 
