For October break we flew into San Francisco and got to visit some fun places there!
Then we took a ride the ducks tour (it drives on land and drives straight into the water and acts like a boat). The kids had a blast quacking all the way. They even got to drive the boat by themselves for a few minutes!
Then we went to Boudin's that has the best Sourdough bread ever and had a delicious sourdough bread bowl of clam chowder and sourdough pizzas!
The bakery
Carter and Kasen on the streets of San Francisco.
(Yes, they are sticking their tongues out at me because they are sick of me taking their picture!)
The Blue Angels were having a show in a few hours and there was a Columbus Day Parade, so it was crowded and busy and lots of streets were closed so we walked up to the crooked street, it was quite a hike up those San Francisco streets!
Chris and Kasen with the bay behind them
The Golden Gate Bridge covered in fog
Carter and I with the bay behind us
Carter and Kasen
Carter pushing the stroller up this steep hill! He is so strong!
The Crooked Street otherwise known as Lombard Street
Chris, Carter, Kasen and Katelynn (we walked down which was easier then climbing with a stroller because of the steps!)
Look at the beautiful view!
Kasen, Carter and I on Lombard Street
Chris and I
Kasen running!
Our family at the bottom of "crooked" street, Katelynn slept the whole way!
Then we stopped at one of our favorite ice cream shops Ghirardelli’s and had a delicious sundae and Carter’s favorite, a banana split!
Kasen and I
Chris, Katelynn, and Carter
Carter in front of the chocolate making machines at Ghirardelli’s
Heading to the Golden Gate Bridge
Driving on the Golden Gate Bridge!
While we were there the blue angels just happened to be performing we were stuck in traffic, but finally caught a picture of them as we were driving on the Golden Gate Bridge!
View of the San Francisco Bay from the Bridge
Chris with Carter, Kasen and Katelynn
Me with Katelynn, Carter and Kasen
Our family on the bridge
Chris and Kasen
Katelynn
Katelynn even took a step on the Golden Gate Bridge!
Then we traveled up through the beautiful Red Wood Forests in Northern California
and along the beautiful California coast!
Here are some muted fall leaves along the highway!
The Redwoods are so unique! Here we are driving through a redwood also
known as the "drive-thru" tree or (Chandelier Tree)
Here we are walking through it too!
Kasen and Carter
Chris, Katelynn and I
Our Family
Then we stopped at a fun little place called Confusion Hill it is just off the old Highway and used to be a popular spot until the new Highway was built so if you want to go visit it follow the signs! They had a playground to play on and different gravitational illusions!
Here are our "chipalopes"!
Kasen, Katelynn, and Carter
They had a fun playground to play on. Here they are swinging!
The boys loved these crazy mirrors and got the giggles!
Check out Kasen's head and stumpy legs!
Carter's long tall body!
Here is Carter trying to walk in the house built on a side of a hill!
Chris, Katelynn and Kasen (yes he is trying to run!)
Chris
Katelynn and I
Here is Chris trying to get out of a chair without his hands and the gravity
wouldn’t let him, pretty crazy!
Carter, Chris and Kasen
They also had water flowing up hill and the golf balls even rolled up hill!
Then we stopped and had a picnic lunch and the boys played football!
At Confusion Hill they had a toy gun that Kasen begged and begged for it so he shoot the bears because we were going to the forest! So here he is with his rifle, you better watch out bears!
Boys hugging a redwood
We also took a little hike
Here are the boys! Behind them is the shallow roots of a fallen over Redwood tree, we learned that the redwood trees root system intertwines with other redwoods to support each other.
Here we are at Founders Grove which is supposed to be home to the world's largest recorded redwood!
Carter
Founders Tree (one of the oldest and tallest trees)
Kasen, Carter and Chris in front of the Founders Tree
Carter and Kasen inside a redwood
The boys exploring the redwoods!
Carter
Kasen
Our family next to one of the largest redwoods that fell down
Chris, Carter, Kasen, Me and Katelynn
Our family
Kasen, Katelynn, and I next to the trunk of a fallen redwood! Amazing Trees!
The boys inside a redwood
Then we traveled up the coast of California
Then we stopped at the Thomas Kulich Visitor’s Center and walked out on the beautiful beach!
Carter, Chris, Katelynn and Kasen
Carter and Kasen found crab shells laying on the beach
Here is Katelynn and I on the gray sandy beach
Here we are at The Trees of Mystery and Paul Bunyon Park. This was an
awesome stop and had some amazing redwoods!
Kasen on his boot!
Carter
Our family
Worlds Largest Family Tree (It actually has 13 redwoods growing off of it!)
Lightning Bolt shaped redwood
The Trinity Tree
These are called the Cathedral Trees (the redwoods grow in a circle). It is considered a sacred spot and lots of people come here to get married so Chris and I kissed for good luck!
Carter and Kasen in front of The Brotherhood Tree (two huge redwoods growing together)
Then you get to take a Sky Trail ride through the redwoods up to an
observation area where you get to see the ocean! It was beautiful!
Kasen, Carter, Chris and Katelynn going through the redwoods
Katelynn
The Beautiful view! It's not everyday you get to see a beautiful forest
with redwoods and look out over the ocean!
Candleabra Tree and Kasen
More pictures of the coast (it is such a beautiful drive!)
Here we are at the Jedidiah Smith State Park and we did another nature walk through the Redwoods!
Carter, Kasen and Chris on a redwood doing the "shaka' sign
Chris and Katelynn
This picture says it all!
Carter climbing on a redwood that was growing over the trail
Carter, Kasen, Chris and Katelynn
Carter
Running through the redwoods
Carter
Carter, Kasen and I
Carter
Carter and Kasen
Kasen
Carter and Kasen
Chris and Katelynn walking through the redwood forest
Then we headed up to Grandpa Chuck and Tika’s!
Here are some beautiful muted fall colored leaves along the highway
Playing football with Grandpa Chuck
Grandpa Chuck and Katelynn
Katelynn crawling in th grass
Chris, Kasen, Carter and Grandpa Chuck with their new army hats!
Grandpa Chuck and Tika have traveled all over the world and collected all kinds of coins and money in each place they have been and Grandpa Chuck has been saving it for the grandkids and gave it to them this time, it is a really cool collection and the boys had fun looking at it with him and asking him lots of questions and wanted him to speak all the languages with all the different coins!
A prayer scroll
Their home is full of all kinds of unique things from countries all over the world! The boys had a blast hearing the interesting stories (so did we!) The boys loved it when Grandpa Chuck would speak Russian or German!
These are from Kyrgyzstan and they use them to put designs on the bread
Then Grandpa Chuck took us to the Science Center in Ashland which was one of the best one’s we have been to and the boys loved it especially because they got to play with their Dad and Grandpa Chuck! They even had an area for toddlers that Katelynn enjoyed!
Katelynn and Kasen
Chris and Carter
Carter and Kasen
Grandpa Chuck and Kasen
Carter and Grandpa Chuck
Katelynn in her play area
Kasen in a bubble
Carter and Grandpa Chuck making bubbles
Carter in a bubble
Making paper airplanes
Chris and Kasen making paper rockets
Grandpa Chuck and Kasen launching paper rockets
Building an arch
Chris, Carter, Kasen and Grandpa Chuck
Then we went to the beautiful Lithia Park in downtown Ashland it was
absolutely gorgeous and the fall leaves were so beautiful!
Chris and Katelynn
This reminds me of London! (How I long to go back there someday!)
The creek runs through it too!
The boys playing football
Katelynn enjoying the dirt!
The Pond
The beautiful fall leaves at Lithia Oark!
Grandpa Chuck and Kasen
Chris swinging Katelynn
Grandpa Chuck pushing Kasen on the swings
Carter and Kasen at the park
The Creek went down to our hotel as well
The kids and I just outside our hotel by the Ashland Creek
Carter and Kasen
The beautiful waterfall in the creek
Tika was down in LA visiting Talia and before Tika would come home Grandpa Chuck had to shave his mustache and so he let the boys help him pick what to shave off first!
Before
This was our favorite look!
With a mustache
All clean shaven!
Then we went out at a yummy pizza place in Medford and Grandpa Chuck drove
them in Tika’s mini cooper convertible, they loved it!
Grandpa Chuck, Carter and Kasen
Kasen and Grandpa Chuck
The next day we went to the Family Fun Center and hit balls at the batting cages!
The boys had so much fun!
Kasen
Carter
Me
Grandpa Chuck
Chris
Tika even did too, but she's not a fan of pictures!
Then we went Goofy golfing
Kasen
Carter
Then they played games in the Arcade and played in the huge indoor play area!
Carter and Kasen
Katelynn
They got to play lots of arcade games and Grandpa Chuck, Tika, and Dad helped win lots of tickets! Here they are with all their prizes!
Grandpa Chuck, Kasen and Carter
Katelynn enjoying watching them on the bumper boats!
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| They had a lot of fun squirting and bumping each other! |
Then the boys rode the go carts and had a lot of fun!
Before we headed back to San Francisco, Grandpa Chuck and Tika took the boys out for one last ride in the convertible and got them books at the book store!
A slideshow of the leaves changing in Oregon!
On our drive back down to San Francisco we got to see
Mount Shasta in the distance, isn’t it beautiful!
We had such a wonderful time and saw so many beautiful things!
Kasen running! 
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