Our original California travel plans included the Redwood National Park, but after researching we realized it was too far north to fit into this trip. Thankfully, we were able to get a reservation at Muir Woods, a National Monument with over 500 acres of protected redwood trees located just 12 miles outside of San Francisco. The redwoods were magnificent, and it was so neat to see and learn about trees that are hundreds of years old and over 250 feet tall!
We spent the entire morning exploring Muir Woods, and even enjoyed a 2 mile hike that led us up and around the hillside. Carter was a hiking machine! She loved being off the "accessible" trail and never complained one time!
We are basically professional, outdoorsy people now, and we all have the shoes to prove it. (Side note...I willingly carried a Kavu bag and wore hiking shoes for most of this trip...never say never!)
I wish I could say that the rest of the day was uneventful on our short drive to our house near Yosemite, but life isn't always sunshine and rainbows and for the sake of full disclosure I'm not going to skip over the less flattering parts...this is real life! With that being said, I think I was the maddest I've ever been at Craig! Basically he (and Grandad Mike) pouted, flailed arms and refused to eat lunch at a vegetarian pizza restaurant in Berkley. A pizza restaurant that had over 5,000 five-star reviews and smelled delicious....mouth watering, delicious...but, we had to leave the yumminess promised by the grab-and-go-pizza to find a new restaurant because he "needed some meat!" What in the world?!? For the record, I didn't care that we left that restaurant, but I did care about how ridiculous he acted over pizza...I cared so much that I didn't get over it until mid-morning of the next day!
I think the whole vibe in Berkley was enough to guarantee that none of us, besides maybe Grant, will ever want to return. Our plan to make a quick stop for lunch turned into a huge fight...the rest of the adults walked down the road to find a new place to eat...Chesley got cussed out on the street...I sat in the back of the van and didn't help Craig park...we picked them up from their walk because we couldn't park the van...cross dressers and wackos filled the sidewalks when we found new place to eat...I sat on the opposite end of the table at the that pizza restaurant...a pizza restaurant that served "cola"....the Target next door was out of Diet Coke...finally found Diet Coke down the street...got back on the road just in time to spend the rest of the day in bumper-to-bumper-Friday-before-Memorial-Weekend traffic.
Just think of all the fun we could have had on our first night in Mariposa had we of eaten the grab-and -go-pizza?!?
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