Northern CA/ Oregon trip...

What a great long weekend I had. First of all I must say that I think I have the most awesomest husband ever. I mean how many husbands really are willing to watch the kids for a few days so his wife can go on a little adventure? Yes that's right not many. Most men feel overwhelmed to be with the kids 24/7, even though women are expected to handle that, but let's not get into that, shall we? ;)

I have been planning on what to put on my blog all weekend, but when you actually sit down to do it, your brain is empty. Well let's see what I can still pull off. :)

It was an amazing trip and we had tons of fun. The drive was very long but totally worth it. We left Thursday late afternoon drove a few hours stopped in Buellton (or something like that) and drove the rest of the way on Friday. I have to admit I had no idea that northern CA is so beautiful. I mean yeah it was pretty cold and wet at times but all in all we were super lucky with the weather.

Saturday then we were all in adventure mood and wanted to check out the area. First we were going to see the Drive through tree but we kept stopping on the way as the surroundings were so cool and beautiful. I don't think I ever took so many pictures in such a short time. :)

It was just amazing. I had no idea how beautiful and fun nature can be. I used to be more of an outdoor person when I was younger but in nowadays I am old and boring. Well that has to change again. ;)

It was nice that it was colder and cloudy and as you can see the water is going a bit crazy too.

Crazy looking road

More of the beautiful ocean

It was in real even better but the pictures can tell that it is worth to check out at one point in life.

So next we stopped at the beach to take a few pictures there. I just love big waves and the smell of the ocean. For some reason I was totally hyper too and we did a little photo shoot, playing around with the waves.

Yes that's right we were playing, pretending we were running away from them, however one mean wave surprise attacked us and so we had to find out the hard way that our winter boots aren't water proof. It was still fun and I have to admit I really enjoyed behaving like a child again. I think we adults need to do that more often. It is healthy and makes happy. :)

We drove back to the hotel to re-dry us and then we were off to check out the big trees. We went to the "Tour thru Tree" first thinking that was one of the way in into the Redwood national park but no of course not. We actually had to pay a fee before checking out the tree. Nobody was there to take the fee just a note saying that if no cashier is at the booth just place the money in the box.

I was impressed they obviously were only expecting honest people and since I am one (or at least try to be) I did what was asked of me to drive on.

At first it looked really promising as we were driving a bit up hill but it was just false advertisement because as soon as we drove around the corner we reached the huge Redwood-drive-through-tree but also a dead end. ;) Oh well we took it with a sense of humor and started our next photo session. Nobody was there anyway so we had all the time in the world...

It really is way to big to reach the sides...

She is just balancing trying not to step in the puddle. ;)

That tree was massive and impressive. I mean thanks to my shortness I usually do feel like a dwarf at times but that thing made me feel even smaller. :)

On our way back we noticed a cool sign that made me smile:

I mean don't get me wrong a Tsunami isn't fun but after getting aquainted with one of the waves, I truly believe that could happen.

Finally we were able to find a little way to check out more of those amazing and huge Redwood trees:

She is standing between parts of the trunk of one huge tree.

That's me in the stump of a gigantic tree.

We weren't even able to get the whole stump into one picture. It was that huge. Just amazing. I never thought I would ever see such huge trees.



Trying to kung fu the tree trunk apart...



After that we went over the border to Oregon, checked out another beach and did a little bit of rock-climbing. It was so much fun. I totally enjoyed myself and so did Miriam. Photos are yet to come as Miriam has them on her camera. But I have one that I can share:

The next day we checked out a beautiful river, more of those massive trees and went on a little hike. It was fun and we enjoyed your little photo sessions too.