Wild Fourth of July Weekend!

I'll post some pics later but I did want to tell this story about our fourth weekend. So our high school friend (Jonny) came up for the weekend and we went to sf (which I am now renaming frisco...I'll explain another time) for the day on the 3rd. It was super fun! We walked around pier 39, got some chowda, walked around more, went to the giants game, saw some SAWEEET fireworks, then walked back to the car on the other side of the city. We did lots of walking. Anyhew, we're driving back home on i80, going through the toll plaza (and it's about 12 AM) and we see there is a fire on the side of the road. And it wasn't a little one either. It was going up the canyon, trees ablaze. No, I didn't get any pics of it, I was half asleep. As Matt goes speeding out from paying our ridiculous toll of 4 dollars, a cop rolls by us, switches on his bull horn and says "hey, there's a fire. can't you see that. could you slow down please." I kid you not! I personally think he was actually some what polite about it; Matt thinks he was being a sarcastic jerk. Either way, that is HILARIOUS! I love that he completely stated the obvious and said "hey there's a fire." We laughed about that for a good 10 minutes while Jonny snoozed in the back seat. And the other crazy thing is that no one seemed to be worried or in a rush that there was a fire ablazing up the side of the canyon. I guess we have lots to learn still about fires here in CA.