By the way, since we have the car and are excited to see the area, but Jared is working, that means I am now forced to figure out driving here. The steering wheel is on the left side of the car and we drive on the left side of the road. Yesterday especially it was very stressful. There are a lot of round-a-bouts and narrow roads. I'm driving in a fairly busy town and I don't know my way around. Add those together with the fact that I'm directionally challenged, and it equals stress! Luckily, the boys were well-behaved in the car so I could fully focus on what I was doing. I don't like being the first one in line at the light because I'm not confident about which way to turn etc.. I'm getting there, but I had trouble turning right at a light. I got in the turn lane and when my light turned green I assumed the oncoming cars still had red? And since I was the first in line, I just went for it. The cars coming the other way went for it too and we were staring at each other as we both pulled forward. Luckily they stopped and yelled while I pulled on through... Whew, lesson learned. Anyway, today I feet better. At least I haven't driven on the right side of the road..... yet....
Today we went to a beautiful forest park called Redwoods. It is a huge man made forest. It was planted by prisoners in the early 1900s after a volcano nearby erupted and wiped out the forest that was there. They planted all sorts of different types of trees to see which ones would thrive there. The California Redwoods have grown huge quickly. There are 15 acres of them along with a variety of ferns and all kinds of tropical looking trees. I've never seen the ones in California. I guess the ones here are not as huge, but they were beautiful and smelled so good!
In tribute to the Palmbos family, Kendal, Sky, and Simone, we decided we should build a fairy house in this forest. It sure seems like a place where they would live, so Elias and I got to work and Cohen supervised. We were pleased with the result.
We probably walked about a mile, but with all our stopping and exploring we were out for almost 2 hours. It was cool, about 50 some degrees? it was 12 degrees Celsius... still trying to get the conversion straight. Anyway, it was a good time. I think Jared will get to explore some more hot pools with us tomorrow...