Our vacation part 2

After leaving Coos Bay we drove down the rest of the Oregon Coast into California. I have never been to California before so it was all new to me. We stopped in Crescent City to eat the lunch my Grandma had packed for us. She is so nice. We stopped by this beach and watched the ocean while we ate. It was called pebble beach, not the golf course one. You can tell by the pictures that it was foggy. In fact most of the coast was foggy that day.

After Pebble Beach we toured the Redwood National Forest. The trees are huge and beautiful. We did not have time to go see the really big ones, but the ones that we saw were still really big. We drove one scenic road. I can't remember the name right now and we hiked two short trails. Luckily we did not run into any bears.

I really love this tree.

This was the best picture I could get of how tall the trees were. The forest is so pretty.

Jason is in a tree.

We stayed in Eureka California and the next day headed down highway 1. First we drove through the Avenue of the Giants, which is close to Eureka. We then drove down highway 1. We did not get as far as we first planned. The road is really windy.

This is us in Mendocino at their state park. They had all these cliffs overlooking the ocean. It was Jason's favorite place. After this we drove on little highways through Sanoma and Napa. It was pretty with all the vineyards, but I like the trees better. We stayed in Fairfield.

The next day we went to the JellyBelly Factory. We did not do the tour because it was just a video tour. I thought that was lame. But we did buy a crap load of jellybeans. We then drove to Lake Tahoe. Someone at work told me it was super pretty and she was right.

We took a drive around part of the lake. It is really blue like Crater Lake. It is also super fancy. We drove through one town that was mostly multi-million dollar mansions. It was weird driving our Civic around all the Mercedes and Escalades.

We had dinner at this restaurant on the lake and this is the sunset from the restaurant. It was pretty romantic.

The next day we woke up early and drove the boring 9 hours back through Nevada. I thought the Idaho drive was ugly and boring, but no this was uglier. I could never imagine living there. Just dirt and a few plants. But we got home okay. Well all in all it was a wonderful vacation. It was hard to come home especially when it was so freaking hot compared to the coast.