Wednesday, June 2, 2010

California

Here are only a few of my favorite photos....
It didnt let me load them all so there will be another post soon...
Thursday morning the family took off for what turned out to be a 1500 mile drive!!
It was amazing.
Our first stop was Crater Lake, what we didnt realize was that due to snow the park was still closed.
We continued on to Medford for the night and started our journey again the next day reaching California.
We stayed in a little house with a kitchen, three beds, fireplace, huge yard with bad-mitten and a hot tub.
We then traveled downt he Avenue of the Giants and enjoyed some breathtaking trees....

















The little park also had a gondola ride.
It was included in the price and was once again, wonderful!
Zoe loved it, which shocked me.
She wanted to ride it again and again, the view was great and we couldnt have asked for better weather.














These are the cathederal trees-
amazing, they grow in a group side by side.
They have ones that are so big and weddings take place there.








In the trees of mystery they had all sourts of animals carved from a tree, this was cute and I told Zoe to pretend like she was picking its nose!!










we managed to eat lunch in our car everyday, so here is a shot of the girls enjoying lunch!








We also stopped at a couple of beaches, this one was way out of site and took us forever to get too, it was windy but gorgeous.











After our long journey to that beach we ran into a little victorian town and enjoyed some chocolate ice cream.




























I love this shot of the two





























We also hit the sea lion caves..it was great, the girls had a blast and the smell was like no other:)








Last stop was the Zoo. As we were heading there it was raining like crazy, I was hoping that the animals would be out.
Just our luck it stopped raining and we were able to see all of the animals playing, including the new lion they have, WOW.
Hannahs favorite were the bears.

















































The end of the day and the girls went to pick out their souviner.
Zoe chose a stuffed deer. We saw soooo many on the side of the road. Hannah chose an elephant.

We had an amazing journey and enjoyed every minute of it!!!


















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gramma terri said...

I'm so glad you enjoyed your trip honey. The Pacific coast states are so beautiful-we are so lucky to live out West! The photos are great, the girls are so sweet!

June 7, 2010 at 9:42 AM

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When it rains.....it pores:)

So here I am visiting the great town of wenatchee- great friends good family and two children! A two year old and a 6 week old. Never have I traveled this far ( 2 1/2 hours) by myself with them and the trip there- fantastic!! Well on the way home I was stopped by a road crew blowing up rocks- 20 minute delay- okay, so we wait the twenty minutes. We pass the flagger and of course it has been 2 hours since I fed the newborn so its time to eat she screams- we make it to the rest stop and POW its closed, so we pull over! Then in the middle of feeding my two year old yells POTTY MOMMY, POTTY MOMMY- great- I say. So I give her the option to go outside- NO WAY so I say " lets put on your sisters diaper and just this one time you can go in a diaper" NO WAY aaaaaaaaaaaa- what do I do...well, there is a fruit stand up the road! So we hop in the car, get to the fruit stand and I plead my case- YES they say, you can use the toilet!!!
okay, I think we are good to go...but of course we get behind three truckers!!!
So long story short our 2 1/2 hour trip ends up taking us almost four and we make it home to a loving husband and father and a batch of peanut butter cookies from the neighbor!
I guess there is always a rainbow at the end of a rainstorm- HUH?