Day 5 of the PNW Adventure!

We started our day at Glass Beach in MacKerricher State Park in Fort Bragg, California.

Glass Beach gets its name from the smooth colorful glass

mixed in with the pebbly beach.

We went during low tide so we could see it.

There are lots of tide pools filled with sea life.

 During high tide, this area is underwater.

We saw some sea lions resting on the rocks.

Next, we drove to Santa Rosa to see the Snoopy Gallery at

the Charles M. Schultz museum.

Harper saw all of her favorite characters.

She got to play doctor

and we even saw a Snoopy topiary!

Next up was a trip across the Golden Gate Bridge

 to get to San Francisco.

We checked into our hotel and walked down to Fisherman’s Wharf to do some shopping.
Harper’s favorite store was called It’s Sugar.  It is the world’s largest candy department store.

She was excited about the giant Kit Kat bar

and all the different kinds of Nerds.

Our favorite store at Pier 39 was Lefty’s! Everything in the store was made for left handed people!
At the end of the pier,

 we saw lots of sea lions resting in the sun.

We could see Alcatraz too!

Harper and I had never been to In-N-Out, 

so we went there for dinner.

Ashley taught us how to order from the secret menu.

It was really great way to end our day!

Day 4 of the PNW Adventure!

We started off day 4 at Trees of Mystery.

I’ve always wanted to see the Redwoods, and this place taught us all about them.  It’s hard to tell in the pictures how giant these trees are!

Harper climbed under this one.

There was a Canopy Trail suspended high in the trees

and we rode a gondola to get a view from the top!

We drove through Redwoods National and State Park.

Our next stop was the Fern Canyon in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

To get there, we had to drive our rental car down a one lane dirt road (traffic travels in both directions 😳) for 8 miles and through 2 creeks.

When we got to the dirt road, it was closed for a project so we had a picnic lunch in the car.

After the road opened, we drove as far as we could, then parked and started our hike.

Much of the hike was through a creek.  We were prepared with water shoes, but Harper wasn’t too thrilled with this part of the adventure.

There were lots of obstacles to climb over

and even some to limbo under.

Eventually Harper figured out that tromping through a creek on a hike was fun!

We finally made it to Fern Canyon!

Jurassic Park was filmed in this canyon.  There were ferns everywhere.

Next, we saw more redwoods as we drove down the Avenue of Giants and even drove our rental car through a giant tree . It barely fit!

Day 3 of the PNW Adventure!

On Tuesday, we drove from Yachats, OR down the coast to Klamath, CA.  The views were gorgeous!  I was afraid I might accidentally drive off a cliff because I was distracted by the views!

We climbed the sand dunes in Florence, OR.

and ate lunch in Bandon.

It was the cutest little town so we checked out the shops!

Each day in Bandon, volunteers create an artsy path called Circles in the Sand.

We also went to the Natural Bridges Viewpoint.

After a busy day, Harper was ready to relax in the pool!

Day 2 of the PNW Adventure!

We started Monday off with Harper’s favorite breakfast (aka any free hotel breakfast!)

Next, we toured the Tillamook Cheese factory.

We watched them make, cut and package cheese. We acted cheesy saying cheese with our free cheese samples!

Ashley learned to milk a cow

and Harper and I took a cruise in the Tillamook van!

Harper found the perfect shirt in the gift shop!

We tried several flavors of the Tillamook ice cream!

We stopped at a food truck called Recess for lunch.  Harper was ecstatic when she saw mac and cheese on the menu!

After lunch, we hiked to see Munson Falls.

and later went to see Devil’s Churn at Cape Perpetua.

It was such a beautiful place to hike

and the ocean was super clear!

We had a great view from our hotel room!

Pacific Northwest Adventure!

Last week, we flew to Portland. 

We checked out Multnomah Falls.

It was beautiful!

We hiked a bit to see Bridal Veil Falls.

It was really pretty too!

We drove to Washington and had lunch since we were close to the border.  I’m trying to get Harper to all 50 states!

After all the hiking, we needed a snack so we picked up

some Voo-Doo doughnuts!

Check out the cute voo-doo doll 😁. Harper’ favorite was the Oh Captain My Captain (Captain Crunch).  Ashley’s favorite was the ODB (chocolate, crushed Oreos with a peanut butter drizzle).  I loved the Marshall Mathers (white frosting with M &M’s).

                   It was a great first day of vacation!