Take me to the river...

Yesterday Ariadna and I went to the river (Yuba River). We had planned to go for awhile but the weather had been so yucky and our schedules always conflicted. Finally, I had a week off from school, and she had a day off from work, and we took off and tried to find a swimming hole that I used to go to with my mom when I was younger.

Unfortunately, my mom told me later that she thinks we went to the wrong covered bridge (surprisingly quite a few out here). We went to the Bridgeport bridge, which I believe is one of the longest covered bridges in the states. It doesn't look very long in my pictures, but it is actually quite long.

It was funny, I kept saying to Ariadna, "You know, I just don't remember it being quite this LONG...." Sure enough I was right, but I am still glad I got to see this one too!

Anywho, it was still a great trip and totally beautiful out there... there was a point when we were going up some VERY curvy roads uphill and I looked over the edge... it was scary but so amazingly beautiful!!!

And, as always, Ariadna and I had quite the adventure getting there. We stopped to grab something to take with us to eat, and I'm guessing the owner of the restaurant didn't appreciate some "non-locals" coming into their little place. I'm not sure if we had "city-folk" written all over us but it was strange...

We admired the small-town grocery store and wished a little that we were from a town like that, rather than a town of huge grocery stores, Wal Mart, and chain restaurants. A town where you not only know your neighbors, but you know their family. I don't even know my neighbors on a first-name basis.

Then, somehow we missed the bridge (I was looking out the wrong side of the window, and Ariadna said she saw it but didn't know "that was it" LOL, I think I asked her how many long covered bridges she saw on the way ;) )

And of course, Ariadna almost hit a poor squirrel (Ariadna + Driving = A little scary) who dashed out like mad into the curvy road. I think he heard our blood-curdling screams when we saw him and hopefully ran back into the bushes. We didn't see any squirrel bits on the way back, so I was relieved :)

So that was our trip there, and here are some pictures of our little journey!

This Sunday I think we are going to the *other* bridge with my family for Mother's Day, so I will have to take pictures of our picnic out there.