Even though we were short on time at the beach, we spent our last day mostly among the trees. Jeff wanted to see some really big ones, so we did. We all enjoyed it!
Here we are, driving where a fallen tree had been cut away so that the road could continue.
Jeff with a big one...cut before people knew better, or before the trees were protected.
And me.
The tree face.
My climbers at the base of a tree.
Family photo attempt. Jeff was happy with this one. He wanted a family picture with a big tree, and this is what we got. The base of the tree fills up the picture.
Down by the creek...
This dinky little bridge led us across the creek. It was a shallow creek, so the bridge wasn't too scary.
Every time we stopped at a sign, Grace had to name each letter on the sign, and Benjamin had to sing the ABCs. I thought it was very cute. Sometimes they had to argue about who was interrupting whom, but most of the time they just talked over each other and didn't worry about it. (I can't remember a two-year-old complain about being interrupted before!)
Rock skipping demonstrations by Jeff
Back on the trail with the big trees
Trying to measure the tree with their arms. Or something like that.
We all had to take a turn on the seat.
Back at our little house, Jeff and Jonathan spent some time reading by the fire and watching the sun go down. Jonathan really loved this part, and was sad that we hadn't done it every night. But, it wasn't clear every night - some nights, it was foggy - so a fire wouldn't have worked all that well. (The previous night, after the kids were in bed, Jeff and I saw several bats flying by!)
Here's the fire Jeff built on the final evening of a memorable trip!
One more post to come...
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