Category: California Missions
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La Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad
We visited La Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad “The Mission of Our Lady of Solitude” this weekend as part of our return from Santa Barbara. We are working on getting to all 21 California Missions and Soledad made #5. The location was selected primarily to shorten the distance between Missions, it lies between Mission Carmel and…
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California Missions: Mission San Miguel
We have been listening to a podcast about California history, and Mission San Miguel came highly recommended. So we were excited to make this our 4th Mission visit on our quest to see all 21 California Missions. K was sleeping when we arrived, so we made this a mother-daughter visit while Chris stayed in the car with him.…
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Mission Santa Barbara
We continued our quest to visit all 21 California Missions this weekend and crossed 3 off our list! The first one was Mission Santa Barbara where the I Madonnari XXXI Anniversario festival was taking place. Mission Santa Barbara is the “Queen of the Missions” and its easy to see why as you drive up. The…
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California Missions: Mission San Jose
The quest to visit all 21 California Missions continues with Mission San Jose in Fremont. This one is only 35 minutes from our apartment, so the kids and I made a special trip on Saturday morning. The original Mission church was built in 1809 but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1868. In 1985 the replacement, designed just…
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California Missions: San Francisco de Asís
On our quest to visit all 21 of the California Missions, we stopped by San Francisco de Asís this weekend. The mission was originally founded in 1776 with the still standing mission building constructed in 1791. The adjacent basilica was finished in 1918 after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed the brick church that sat on that…
Magnets From Everywhere 