Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day!

My screensaver started back up for some reason, so all our vacation pictures started scrolling and caused some serious vacation withdrawal. It's time to revisit our trip.

We loved our stay in Trinidad, California, which is a tiny coastal town up on the cliffs. We awoke to seals barking and couldn't wait to get up and look around.
The evening before, I made dinner while the kids tossed football in the "back yard" with Dad, and then we ate out on this picnic table.


There were seals covering these rocks.


There was a good chance we saw a whale out there too, but it never surfaced enough to be sure. Seemed like it was just lying in wait for some seal breakfast.


We spent part of the day driving through the Avenue of the Giants (remember the beautiful, green clovers, ferns, and TALL trees?) and eventually got pretty desperate for some place to eat. There isn't much civilization around when you're hugging the California coast with little towns dotted here and there. Our GPS told us there was an organic place called Nacho Mama's so we followed the directions and found this:

We ordered our (delicious) burritos and were on our way.

We saw a sign for a drive-thru tree and couldn't resist taking a bit of a sidetrack to experience it. Here we are in the van, in the tree.


Then I hopped out and had Craig drive through it again.


Sophia is trying the tree on for size.


A short video of the third drive through!


Back on the curvy, coastal road, the sun started to set on another fantastic day.