Redwoods - Day 3

Day 3 - Redwoods National Park - August 4, 2017

There are 46 photos in this post, about half of them are simply photos of the beautiful forest.  This is such an incredible place.

We went on a couple of short hikes and walks in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park and the Redwoods National Park.

I don't know where Rachel is taking Kate.

Lyla & Grayson.

A cool twisted tree.

Banana slugs.  I wonder how they taste...

Lunch was spent on the side of the road, sitting on the hood.

Lunch date.

We're being overrun by slugs.

Yep. Ada licked one. But, she made a cool $5.

We headed north on Highway 101. Jackson swapped places with Lyla and joined us in our car.

We stopped at Crescent Beach to dip our feet in the Pacific.

We went to the Stout Grove in the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park.  This place was a highlight.

The trail took us down to the Smith River, which was a perfect spot to skip rocks.

Cute little bridge, but it would be tough to sail under.

Ada found a little frog.

These are some stout trees.

One more fun perk at our hotel was free limo rides out to restaurants in Eureka.  We took them up on a ride to the Lost Coast Brewery.

Tomorrow we stretch our legs on a long hike.

Redwoods - Day 2

Day 2 - Humboldt Redwoods State Park - August 3, 2017

It's about a 5 hour drive from Oakland to Eureka where we were staying. We stopped at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park on our way to Eureka.

We stopped by the visitor's center on the Avenue of the Giants. All 6 kids, 3 girls from us & 3 boys from the McIntyres.

There will be lots of foliage photos. No explanation needed.

We went on a small loop hike to the Founder's Tree.

Alison and Rachel.

The whole fam.

Lyla splitting logs.

This tree is only 75' shorter than the tallest building in Utah.

Ring around the big tree.

Kate & Grayson.

Lyla walking all contemplative.

Alison and Rachel admiring the big trees.

We stayed at the fanciest hotel in town (maybe not totally true...), which happened to be the Best Western. It had a great pool and activity area that the kids made sure we took advantage of.

Tomorrow we drive to Redwoods National Park.

Redwoods - Day 1

Continuing on with the events of last summer.

I'm going to skip the short trips that we made to Bear Lake and Bear Hollow Lodge (near Tremonton), and that takes us to a short trip to the Redwoods of Northern California with some friends.

Day 1 - SLC-OAK - August 2, 2017

We left town on Wednesday evening flying from SLC to Oakland, CA.

I only took one picture today, so that's what this post gets.

Tomorrow we make the drive from the Bay Area to the Redwoods.

Southern Cal 2017 - Day 6

Day 6 - Great Wolf Lodge - June 6, 2018

We spent the morning at the awesome indoor waterpark at our hotel the Great Wolf Lodge.

Of course, we had to start the day with our doughnuts.

This girl was happy.

Look at this place.  Pretty impressive.

Lyla in the kids area.

Wave pool.

Now looking the other direction from the wave pool towards the slides.

Mean dad moment. For some reason or another Ada was in a bad mood and didn't want to be on camera.  Somehow she kept getting in my photos anyway...

It's hard to take many pictures at a waterpark, so more of the same.

Now that we had a bucket of ice cream as big as her head, Ada is happy.

After the waterpark, we packed up and made our way to the lovely Long Beach Airport.  It looks more like what you would expect a cruise terminal to look like, but it worked great for us.

Lovely quick trip.  Now onto blogging about our next adventure at the Redwoods!