California adventures

We decided to take a little trip within our trip to California. We spent Christmas week celebrated with the Hills and the week after Christmas decided to drive up the coast to see San Fransisco and the Redwoods. The first day we drove to San Fransisco and spent the day exploring Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39 and went to Ghirarelli's square. We had two major let downs, first, Simon's favorite cookies, Blue Chip are no longer SF and second the line for ice cream at Ghirarelli's was enormous. On our way back down from the Redwoods we stopped back in SF and saw Chinatown, the Full House houses and tried to get a Hill Family picture of the Golden Gate bridge, but there was so much fog we couldn't see it from land.

Lighthouse in Trinidad, CA

Simon ranks Highway 101 as one of the most scenic routes he has driven.

It's hard to really appreciate how beautiful the Redwoods are without being there. Our camera just didn't do justice. We hiked the into the Lady Bird Johnson grove, the Prairie creek trail and the Cathedral of the trees. We also drove through the Avenue of the Giants!

Auby hiking with Mommy!

When we returned back to San Diego we got to see some more family and Simon was able to go to the Chargers game with his cousin Nate. They picked a great game to go to! Auby and I went shopping with Lupe! We had a great trip!