Visiting the Big Trees Today we took a trip to Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Arnold, California. This was another location to mark off of the bucket list. For years I have wanted to see ‘the big trees’. Before visiting California and the Redwood National Park I did not know the difference between Redwoods … [Read more…]
Today we spent the day at Yosemite National Park. I’m knocking the places I have always wanted to visit off of my list. We enjoyed walking around and taking in the sites. The girls, of coarse, signed up for the Junior Ranger Program, and began working on their booklets. One of my favorite things here … [Read more…]
Today we visited Hurricane Ridge, a part of Olympic National Park. The girls previously received badges at HOH Rainforest, another part of Olympic National Park, but decided to fill out another booklet (it was the same) to get an additional badge at Hurricane Ridge. We didn’t spend too much time hiking here, but we did … [Read more…]
We’ve been doing some hiking here in the desert. The weather has been great for hiking, around 65 degrees. One of our favorite places so far is Skyline Regional Park, not too far from where we are staying. It is an 8,700 acre mountain preserve located in the southern White Tank Mountains with 16 … [Read more…]
We learned from one of our neighbors a t the park that Glendale has an annual festival called the Glendale Glitter and Glow Block Party. We decided to check it out. The Glitter and Glow party is located in downtown Glendale and begins the end of November thru the beginning of January on the weekends. … [Read more…]