Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Labor Day fun

As I have previously mentioned, we madea trip up to the Redwood Forest for Labor Day. It's almost exactly half way between our house and Wayne's parents. They met us at the campground. We stayed just north of Crescent City at a KOA inside the Redwood Forest. We were on the West side of the Smith River but just minutes from the Jedidiah Smith entrance. If you are at all familiar with this area we were about 4 minutes away from Stout Grove which is where Return of the Jedi was filmed. Jackie is always good to pack what has come to be called the "Gramma Box" it's always filled with goodies for the kids to choose from. The kids love his tradition, especially when they are the only grandkids around and everything in the box has been customized to their own likings.
Wayne and his mom Jackie in the middle of Stout Grove.
Eating and visiting at our amazingly beautiful campsite.
Gramma Jackie hikin with the kids. They are about to cross the big foot bridge that crosses over the Smith river from the Jedidiah Smith park to Stout Grove.
Britt and Jay proud that they had tricked all of us. We were'nt sure which way they had gone and they were actually on top of the overturned tree listening to our quandry.
Britt and Wayne walking toward the playground at our campsite.
Gramm and the kids walk over to swing and play tether ball. (Wayne won of course)
These chickens and goats belong to the campsite owners. The kids loved walking over to th animals.
Ally wading in the Smith River on the Stout Grove side. Jay in tree climbing heaven.
I have lots of pictures and adventures to blog about if I could just add a few more hours to each day!

5 comments:

Janelle said...

That's awesome - we went camping there over 4th of July in 2006. I had no idea about the Return of the Jedi (Stephen would love to know that!).

The Sorensen Family said...

You guys are always out doing fun things. Cute pictures. It makes me really want to get up in the mountains.

Michelle said...

Wayne's mom sounds awesome-bringing goodies for the kids. I want her to be my grandma too!

Sorensen's said...

I'm glad you guys had such a great visit! I love the Redwoods!

M. D. Vaden of Oregon said...

I was down there a lot the past few years, including last week, August, and June.

This page below, shows a few redwoods not far from Stout Grove:

Grove of Titans redwoods

Particularly Del Norte Titan, El Viejo del Norte and Lost Monarch.

In the albums from the page, you can see larger sizes. Those trees are undisclosed. I post the page link on many blogs so folks can see them, since most people may just read about them, and the main book covering them, has no photos.

Cheers,

M. D. Vaden
Oregon