Vacation ~ Day Two

Day two of our vacation found us waking up at the Curly Redwood Lodge in Crescent City, CA.  Although the lodge is old, and not updated, the room was spacious.  If you want quaint, this was nice.  If you want luxury....don't stop in Crescent City.  Anyway.....after we finally got everyone up and ready we headed to my moms house since she was our tour guide for the day.  The kids got to meet the ferrets, and they loved them!  I think Isabella loved them the most, but that was to be expected.  She is our animal girl.

The first beach mom took us to was a really cool rock and driftwood beach that would probably be excellent for tidepooling if we weren't there near high tide.  Ethan found some nice driftwood that he plans to whittle with his new pocket knife. Isabella found some nice rocks and a few cool pieces of driftwood.  John even found a really nice rock with some coral on it.  We saw a seal bobbing around out near the rocks, but I wasn't able to get a good picture.  Ethan really wanted to make a sand castle, so he asked grandma to take us to a "sand castle making beach", so off we went.

 First we drove the coast line and stopped at the marina to see if we could get a better look at some seals.  We did, but the real show was the seagulls and pelicans waiting just feet from us to catch the leftovers from the fishermen cleaning their catch.  There was this little group of 5 or 6 that were fighting for the same piece, and all I could think of was the seagulls in Finding Nemo saying, "Mine, mine, mine".

 After a bit we continued on to the sandy beach where we all had a blast.  The kids constructed their castle, and I was able to take a short walk by myself and found a handful of sand dollars.  Isabella found some as well, and boy do I wish we hadn't.  Well, I'm ok with it now....but let me tell you....getting a whiff of baking hot sand dollar in the hot van after it had been sitting in the sun with the windows up....NOT FUN!!!  So basically the last three days of our trip were rough on the nostrils.

Gabriel decided to take a dive into the water tripped and fell, so needless to say we left the beach and headed back to the lodge to get cleaned up before taking a drive through the Redwood forest.  The forest is beautiful, these trees are just amazing as is all the flora around this part of California.

 After that, we headed back to moms house and had dinner, and  played with the ferrets some more.  Thanks again for an awesome day mom!