Day Six

California!!!!!  I can’t believe I am in California!!!  Today we were driving down the coast headed to Santa Rosa.  We figured it would be cheaper to stay somewhere outside of San Fran.  During the trip we were able to stop at the Redwood Forest.  Have you been there?  Those sequoia trees are ginormous.  They were so amazingly beautiful!  The bark is vertical and gray, which made it easy to pick them out.  Of course they were absolutely huge as well.  Another stop we made was Trees of Mystery where we saw a giant Paul Bunyan and Blue.  We even found a tree that we could drive thru in Leggett.  It was a tight fit, but we made it thru.  We drove past Humboldt Bay, which was cool for us since there is a Humboldt Bay in Jayapura.  And we were able to see some Elk.

At one point, we stopped at a grocery store to get some snacks and water.  We asked if they had a small box we could have and they said no.  We needed one for the van to hold the kids toys.  The one we had been using split open.  So we decided to drive behind the mall looking for a recycle dumpster to get a box out of.  When we found one, I was half in and half out of it rummaging around for the right box.  All of a sudden, the mall security vehicle comes over to see what I was doing.  She informed we that we were not allowed to take boxes out of the dumpster.  How funny!  Busted for trying to take a box.  A few minutes  earlier Wyatt asked me if I wanted him to jump in the dumpster and look around.  Good thing I said no, or we may have been sent to jail.  Haha

It was a long day of driving. We didn’t eat dinner until 9:30 and didn’t get to the hotel until 11.  But both Garth and I commented that it was so nice to not be on a schedule.  It was great to just stop when we wanted to, to pull over and look at beaches, and make our own routine.  We are having fun with Flo.  She is our GPS.  Never had one before.  Garth and the kids named her.  She doesn’t like it when we take detours off our route.  The kids will be in the back chanting, “Recalculating, recalculating…”

Tomorrow-San Francisco.

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