Visiting the giant redwood trees...

Today, we had a couple of adventures.  In the morning, I took them to go shopping at Target. They loved it and we wandered around there for a couple of hours.  They were very amazed and amused, however, to find out that nearly everything said "made in China" on it.   Unfortunately, Sam the Photographer was not with us, so that adventure is undocumented.  :0)

This afternoon we drove about 45 minutes to Santa Cruz, to the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park .  It is much warmer up in Santa Cruz than it is here, and I think more humid.  We took the easy Redwood Loop trail, which is only .8 mile (1.3 km), but by the time we all took photos every few steps, it took us about an hour and a half, and we were all hot and tired.  We saw some really big trees, a few wild turkeys, some deer and a lot of tourists. Busy day at the Redwoods...

Here, they are actually posing inside of a trunk of a redwood tree.

Good friends, Annie and Mary!

Selina

The gang, at the base of a BIG tree.

Afterwards, we went into Santa Cruz to get pizza for dinner. We were going to go to the beach, also, but we decided we were too tired and we will do that on another day.