Thursday, June 26, 2008

Trip to the Redwoods

A few weeks ago we went with Eden's family to California to visit her aunt and go up to the Redwoods. While we were there we went to Mt. Diablo which is a fun little Sunday drive destination if you are in the Oakland area. On the mountain is an area that I believe is referred to as Rock City, or something to do with similar. We got to climb on the rocks and that was a fairly jovial time had by all.















Monday we went to Six Flags and enjoyed the animal shows that they had although I must say that I was a little disappointed with the shark feeding that they had, it was not nearly as exciting as I thought it would be, boo to them. We did get to go on two rides, a Tony Hawk roller coaster and of course one of the greatest rides of all time, bumper cars.







-Disclaimer: we did tell her not to go on the ride but she wouldn't be excluded from the bumping of cars.


On Tuesday we were back on the open road as we drove up through the Redwoods and went on the Ave. of the Giants, I was impressed with the overall size of the trees, they were huge.
























The most amusing part of the entire trip took place while we were at a ranger station. They had a board that listed all the animal sightings for the past few days and down on the bottom of the list after deer, moose, elk, birds, and other fairly uninspiring animals my attention was drawn to these words "albino bear cub" I thought to myself could it be? I have never heard of such a thing, however the words following made me begin to laugh hysterically "could have been a husky". The moral of the story must be that all husky owners must keep their dogs leashed whilst in state parks as to not give off the illusion that an albino bear cub is in the area.

Tribute to Technology


As we continue to prepare for the arrival of our little bundle of joy, we, and when I say we I mean mostly Eden, have come across some items that make me proud to be a man. This vest is the brain child of two men in Colorado that wouldn't succumb to society and carry a sissy diaper bag with flowers, instead of conforming they created THE diaper vest. What more could a man want when dealing with children? It has places for diapers and bottles and even a changing pad slips in the back. If you really want to watch the demo movie of all it can do, go to www.dadgear.com