AMAZING TREES

We spent our weekend to see the giant trees up north. Thats why i was not able to blog the past 2 days. It was a very nice, exciting and interesting weekend for me. We stayed @ Vagabond hotel in Ukiah we got there @ 5pm saturday, after we checked in we head to Mendocino but it's already dark when we got there. so we decided to go back to our hotel it took us an hour and 10 mins to drive from mendocino back to ukiah. We checked out @9 am and started to drive to Legget where the drive thru trees is. These are some of the pics I and my hubby took.

Our van driving thru the chandelier tree. The second picture is me w/ my father in law and kids.

After the drive thru tree we went to the other drive thru tree but on our way there we seen this Tree House. The tree is 4000 yrs old and the inside was burnt 300 yrs ago, they made at he tree as part of the gift shop. The height of the tree is 250 ft and the inside cavity is 5o ft 101 1/2 feet circumference and 33 ft diameter(huge ha) it's truly amazing. The third pics is taken inside the tree.

This is another drive thru tree located in myers flat, the tree is 5000 yrs old. My son enjoyed playing in those tree houses. The last pic is called a drive on log


Then we went to this tree house cal;led eternal tree in Redcrest. You can see the old pics of the eternal tree house in these link: http://www.image-archeology.com/redwood_tree_2.htm The tree house was a gift shop b4 but when we got there it was empty.
We also drive in the avenue of the giants where I saw lots and lots of huge old trees. I knew theres a lot more to explore there and i would love to go back there, yes maybe this coming summer vacation cause we want to take the twins too.

WEEKEND PLAN

We are planning to go to fortuna and Eureka tomorrow. My hubby went there last 2005 and showed me pictures of big trees, One of them is really huge that they made a hole where cars can pass through. I havent seen big trees in the philippines like this. Actually my husband took me to Big Basin etc where the big trees are (cant remember the name of the other places) Yes my husband loves to take pictures of nature. So we usually go to the woods or beaches. I've seen lots of very huge trees but it's still amazes me whenever I see them. I wonder if we still have those big old trees in the phil. like as old as 500 or 1000 yrs...

Photo was taken February 2005 in Legget Mendocino County by my husband. This tree was carved in 1930s the maximum age of this tree is 2400 yrs. WOW cant wait to see it too.

Pigeon Point Beach

It's been 2 days , and I cant take my kids out to the park cause it's been raining since yesterday. Yes it's been a cold days but I noticed this morning the temperature warmed up and so I am expecting that this coming week will be a good week to take the kids to the beach. Especially now that I cant take them to mall or any shopping center because of the swine flu. I knew beach is the best place to take the kids since there is not that much people and i dont have to worry about them getting the disease. Last week we took my son and daughter to Pigeon Point Beach with their grandpa. Though Ethan is afraid to go near the water maybe because of the sound of the waves and I did let him feel the water (it's freezing cold he he he). He did had a good time exploring and so as my daughter. Before we went to Pigeon Point my hubby took us to the Hotel by the beach (JW Marriott Hotel). It's a nice European style hotel) Wish to stay there someday. Here are the pics taken: