Friday, December 19, 2008

Tall Tall Trees

Are we crazy or what? She is on those rocks pretty much by herself. We must be insane....



A few weeks ago Todd and I went on our first family vacation that didn't involve our extending family. When I say first... I mean our very first since before we were married. This was our "honeymoon" and we were lucky enough to have Kensington with us.

We went to Angel's Camp and stayed in my parents timeshare. I'm normally a planner but I didn't plan any activities for this trip. We were just going to wing it. The first day was kind of a bummer because we couldn't find the lake we were looking for and ended up having a picnic in our car instead. By the time we found a lake it was almost sunset but we hiked around a bit and got some fun pictures. The 2nd day we went to Tall Trees State Park to see the GIANT sequoias. They were AMAZING! I've never seen trees so tall. We decided to do the 5 mile hike instead of the 1 1/2 mile walk so we could really be out in nature. Todd carried Kensington the whole way because no plan meant no baby backpack. The trees were amazing and even though we were both exhausted by the end it was a great hike. The 3rd day we went to Moaning Caverns. Its one of many caves in the area. We climbed down 240 stairs (165ft) into this cave. There were cool rock formations and an underwater stream. They turned out the lights and it was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. 240 stairs down meant 240 stairs back up. My legs hated me. After the cave we went back to the trees to try out the 1 1/2 mile walk. Again Todd carried Kensington. We headed home on Sunday just in time to unpack and get ready for a very busy week. I love vacations and I'm ready for another one!





3 comments:

jen said...

It looks like a lot of fun! Family vacations are so nice!

mj said...

what fun! we want to make it there some day. good to know it is still fun with a kiddo in tow.

Sariah English said...

Thanks for posting the pictures. I can't believe she is so big. It looked like a lot of fun!

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