California Redwoods

Oh the majestic trees of the redwoods.  Last night we watched a movie called "The Bucket List".  On the mans list was to witness something truly majestic.  I believe on this vacation we witnessed two things truly majestic.  One being these giant trees that reach clear up to heaven.  They are strong and big and amazing.  The hiking is breathtaking and a little bit damp because the sun can't make it through to dry things out.  

The second thing we saw that was truly majestic was Crater Lake in Oregon.  It is a lake with cliffs all around because it was caused by an old volcano caving in creating a crater.  The water is blue and clear like it is untouched by man.  There is only one way to get down to it, so most people walk around the top edges and just soak in the true beauty of the lake.  

This tree had fallen recently and they said it woke up the ranger like it was an earthquake.  It made a very loud boom also.

Our second tree we got to drive through.  This one wasn't as cool because it was more money and only the tree.  The other place had other trees and hiking and a little shop full of cool redwoods junk.

More soccer on the beach.  We played all the time, it got the kids running around and wiggles out from the long car rides.

We stopped by this wood carving shop.  He showed his this giant chainsaw that he uses.  He is very talented and we were fascinated by his work.  Shane had very good talents working with wood and this guy was so kind to let us see his things.

Crater Lake Oregon.  This is the true color of the water it was so blue and so beautiful.

Our last camp spot in Oregon.  In Oregon there aren't signs that say you cant camp on the side of the road and the ranger told us we could pull over and dry camp at most places so we did.  It was fun until these two took over my bed after Shane left in the morning.  Oregon was beautiful, but cost a bit of money when Shane got pulled over and the ticket cost $160.  Oh well, it made for good memories.  On that same day I booked a hotel room for the wrong night and the website was nonrefundable so we had a major kick in the wallet that day! So we decided to cut our losses and head on home and took a 14 hour drive that day.  The boys watched 5 movies, thank goodness they could be entertained that way or we would have gone crazy.  It was overall a grand adventure that Shane took us on and we will forever be thankful we had the opportunity to go and take Gonzalo along.