Finally, Disneyland

These last couple of sets of pictures are of Disneyland and Sea World. It was a great trip! The best part for me was getting to enjoy my husband's company for so long. It seems that we hardly get to see each other because we work different schedules. We just took it easy and enjoyed being together.

The last section of the trip before we picked up the girls at the airport was the La Brea Tar Pits. You can see that tar patches just pop up all over the grounds. They try to contain them, but they must not be able to keep up. It was especially nice because I have to teach about fossils in fourth grade and now I have more I can add from first hand knowledge (not that I was there when the fossils formed, just that I have actually seens the pits and some of the bones removed from it.)






































Then we picked up the girls at the Long Beach Airport. It is the smallest airport terminal I have ever seen.

When we got to Southern California we stopped in Hollywood. Here is Grauman's Chinese Theatre. John Wayne's square had his fist instead of his hand. And you can see that Rick could fill the footsteps of The Arnold. Jimmy Durante had his nose in cement and most of the stars left some little message.
It was actually much more fun than I thought it would be.

I realize this is going in backwards, so you may want to start at the bottom and move up. Then this next picture didn't publish so I had to put it back in by itself. Oh well, at least I am blogging.
Then we went to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Rick is the guy in the white shirt. This tree fell down years ago. They figure it takes several hundred years for them to decay. The roots are only about a yard or two out of the picture, just behind Rick. There are still two smaller sections behind me. We were trying to get a better perspective on how tall the trees really are.

Redwoods are such amazing trees. Here we are standing inside a living tree. There is a huge cave, a hole out the top that is supporting a fallen limb, and the tree is still alive and growing. It is amazing. The next picture is our little camp site. This is the only place we used the tent, but Rick wanted to spend at least one night sleeping in the redwoods. It was fun but cold.




























We went to the home of Sarah Winchester, called the mystery house. She built continually (24 hours a day) for 38 years to keep the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles appeased. Here is the door to nowhere. It opens from the inside, but goes nowhere. There are lots of little things like that. It was a fun tour.

I'll finally blog about our great trip. Here is Rick in front of the monument at Donner Pass, our first stop. The snow that year was up to the top of the rock part of the monument. There was still a lot of snow this March, Rick is walking on about 3 feet of snow.










This is, obviously, the Golden Gate Bridge. We walked just past the first pillar and wanted to walk across, but our parking meter had expired so we went back.









We also went to Golden Gate Park (it is HUGE) and to the ocean. Rick was racing the waves back to shore. There were jellyfish coming up with the waves. They were just large, clear blobs that appeared and disappeared with each wave.