Another roadside attraction.......

This makes me sad, poor tree. But alas I am a hypocrite since I paid 5 bucks to drive through it. How is this tree healthy with a giant hole chainsawed through it?

And across the road...

Emus!
I was reading the brochure for the tree and thought it said "Come see our Emus(rhymes with male body part)" , and I was like "Ben what is an Emus?" Duh.


We cant forget these guys...

Paul and Babe. These guys were huge. Notice the little girl on his shoe. When we got there he was having a conversation with her. It was cute. Sophie was super shy and made us promise that we wouldn't make her talk to him. Imagine having that guys job...shouting hi to all the tourists and talking to little kids all day.



This picture pretty much sums up the nastiness of this bathroom.
Getting sick of our vacation photos yet?

Most Beautiful Pacific....

You didn't really think I wasn't going to overload my blog with our trip photos did you? Well, In fact I took so many I had to break them up into categories. Yes, I am a picture junky. When I was in High School I dreamed of becoming a photographer for National Geographic. It is so beautiful on the West Coast it is easy to take great pictures. The first four photographs are near Crescent City, California, after that the photos are near Bandon, Oregon.

Under Giants...

We just spent a few days down in California to visit the Redwoods for our 10th Anniversary. This trail is called the Damnation Creek trail and took us through majestic Redwood groves down to the Ocean. The trail was steep and fun going down but going up was another matter. It is a 4 mile round trip hike and the last 1. 4 miles drops 1,000 feet from the forest to the Ocean. I carried Sollie up in the backpack most of the way back up and man that was a workout. It was a beautiful hike and I highly recommend it if you ever find yourself in the Del Norte Coast Redwoods.