Northern California is nothing like the rest of the state, and especially during the summer time that is a really good thing. When we left home it was supposed to be 100 degrees, but it hasn't even hit seventy degrees since we've arrived in Fortuna. Another bonus to our visit is that my nephew from Alabama's visit with my parents has overlapped with ours for a few days. We don't get to see him or his family very often but we love it when we do. We've gone on quite a few non-strenuous hikes with him, beginning with the "Russ Park hike" near
Ferndale. My kids say that they've done it at least a hundred times, but I think it's more like thirty...or forty.
We also had to visit the Saturday farmer's market in Arcata. My parents have a wonderful garden, so we're not so tempted to buy all of the produce, but we usually have to buy some decadent bakery items, and, of course, I have to check out the yarn booths.
Arcata has a city park with some trails that make you feel like you're hiking out in the middle of a huge forest. And or once, they allowed dogs, so Rowdy got to go along.
And the perfect way to end the day was to play a little scrabble. OK, I admit this wasn't the our actual game.
7 comments:
That's the way to play Scrabble-lol!
Sounds like a wonderful trip!
Love the Scrabble board!!! Sounds like perfect weather.. nice and cool. Perfect for those hikes. It was 102 degrees when we got into St. Louis today! WAY TOO HOT!! Enjoy the rest of your time!!
Looks & sounds like you had a grand time--so great, and soo good to see you all! Lovely knitting on the needles there...((HUGS))
I love the picture of the kids on the tree stump. Great perspective!
Oh your scrablle board did make me giggle.
Looks like a great trip - we don't have so big trees here in Norway! Your socks looks lovely :)
My sister-in-law and fam are moving to northern CA. From her description, it sounds lovely. But then again, you already knew that!
Nice socks, too, by the way! :-)
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