Thursday July 12th

We spent the night in a hotel because the temperature kept rising the further north we drove. 

Our thermometer in our van hit 42 degrees at one point.  Yikes!!!  We asked at a gas station if it cooled off at night and if we should tent and the answer to both questions was "no".  Don't argue with the locals is my mentality.

The next morning we let the kids play in the pool for awhile before we toured the Redwood Forest.

A map of the route we took to ensure we saw all the interesting sights the Redwoods had to offer.

I see these pictures of Ethan from 5 months ago and I can see how much he has grown since then - WOW!!!

Driving through a tree is really cool!!

Am I going to make it??

Yes!  But barely!!

Dad and Mom in love.

See his foot out the side?

Magnificent!!!

We stopped for a one hour hike through the forest.  We started at the end and I had a good laugh when we got to the beginning.  "Stay off the trees!" the sign warns.  Oops!!  At least we didn't let the kids pick the flowers!!

Nadia lovingly carried her doll on the whole hike.  So cute!!

Nope, we didn't climb on the trees at all!!!

We stopped somewhere past Medford OR at about 8pm that night. 

It was a very off day.  We had lunch at 3pm and dinner at 9pm. 

The next day we drove 10 hours to get home and surprisingly took no pictures of that day.

So it took 3 days to drive California (up the coast) and 1 day to drive all of Oregon and Washington on the I5.  We were quite sick of driving by then, but we had had a great time and were glad we were blessed to see that part of North America.  We were also blessed that no one was injured and that we were keep safe in God's care the entire time.  Thank you LORD!!!