Guest Blogger: Dad Dog Beach

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SAN FRANCISCO AT GOLDEN GATE!!!!!

Need i say more!!!

Okay i will...

Uncle Mike and Aunt Sally with their wonderful dogs!

Cochise is on the left (coco) and Lakota (kota) on the right (pic above) Tennis balls and 20 dogs w/ the golden gate and ocean fetching back drop... dogs of all kinds it was really awesome...
It was wonderful to see Megan's place and tour beautiful but crazy busy sanfranciso. Crissy Park was one of many places that were very cool! Kite surfers to wind surfers. I was satisfied with throwing tennis balls. Tristan and I both dswam with the dogs it was inevitable... (the chinese food was the BEST not to mention the company...) LOVE NORTHERN CALI it is a must SEE!!!

BEACH BUNNIES!

There is more to come... STAY TUNED

Zen Garden

We went to the Zen Garden in California, It was really amazing. All of the buildings and towers really made me want to go to China. I felt like I was really in China. We saw Buddah and fish, It was truly amazing.

Meggie's House

We arrived at Megan's house later than we thought, and they made Mom a birthday cake. Don't ask about the scarfs. That's just normal behaviour for Catie and Meggie.

Coastal Crisis

On the way to Meggies, we saw a sign that said Pirates Cove! For those of you who do not know of this significance ask Ben. After that we went to a beach that was one of the most deadly beaches in California. Click on the sign to read the rules it said to not even play tag with the waves. So, I played tag with the waves and ran off!

Chandelier Tree

We saw many signs directing us to the Drive-Through Tree. We had to do it, too tempting! We thought, this might be a tight fit, afraid our truck (Bert, his name was decided upon days before this) was too tall and might get stuck. But that was not the problem, our truck was in fact too wide. Well almost too wide. We had about one inch on each side. While I was outside of the car, my parents were inside. When they got through the tree, I said, Now we have to do it again except with me inside! They completely disagreed, but after a while I convinced them that I didn't get the full experience, we drove through again. Then I posed in a tree and ran off!

California Coast

The waves are giganto! Literally, HUGE! We are near the coast of Mendocino, google it because, we left the camera in the car. The ocean was amazing, so me and dad decided we must swim in this freezing, creature infested, salty water.

Redwood National Forest

We went into the Redwood National Forest, the trees were so huge! You would need 10 people to fully hug one of them. Some of them had trees growing off of them, making it climbable. You could sit inside of the fallen down trees, but it seemed to be the home of an animal, and I didn't want rabies!

Mother's Birthday

For Mommy's birthday dinner, we had halibut, steak, corn, grilled veggies, caprese salad, and asparagus. Momma was so happy! I bought her a red skirt, that's really comfy, she says its her traveling skirt. Happy Birthday Momma!!

WOW, Mount Rainier, Greek delicous

I haven't posted for a while because I LOVE WOW, World of Warcraft. Its an online mmorpg, so much fun :D. We went to Mount Rainier, huge mountain, I climbed some rocks, but that was tiny compared to the whole thing. They gave us a hilarious paper that said,

If you see a black bear or mountain lion...

Close encounters with Black Bears

• Never feed a bear, either intentionally or by leaving food unsecured.
• Do not approach bear cubs.
• Back away slowly, do not run. Talk loudly

If Charged by a black bear

• Act aggressively, shouting, throwing rocks and sticks
• If the bear attacks and you do not have food, fight back aggressively.

close encounters with a Mountain lion

• Do not run or turn your back
• stand up tall, open your jacket, yell, throw things
• stand in a group
• Pick up and hold small children
• If attacked fight back. stay standing. hit as hard as possible especially in the head use a stick or rock as a weapon, THROW DIRT IN ITS EYES-

what?!? throw dirt in its eyes? really? like that will do much. Its a mountain lion for gods sakes! But it is better than Yellowstone's rules.

• lay on the ground
• fake death
• roll up in the fetal position
• suck your thumb
• put yourself on a giant white platter and cover yourself in gravy.

We went swimming at the coldest lake in the world, the water was from glaciers! If you stayed in too long you would DIE. Polar Bear club anybody? We had delicious Greek salad for dinner, oh how i love my mothers cooking.

Aquarium / Serious Pie

We went to the aquarium today, it was really cool, I wasn't as into it as my dad though. He loves fish. We saw soo many fish too. We saw Eel and sharks too. You could pet the sea urchins, that was freaky. There was an arch that you could walk through inside the arch, were jellyfish. That was really cool. We saw Harbor Seals, they were sooo cute! We also saw otters. One of the otters climbed up on a rock right in front of me and had explosive diarrhea. EW! I am scarred for life! There was the little pictures that you could put your head into. "How childish" I thought. I was over there in a second with my head in the frame yelling take a picture! We saw little tiny seahorses too. How cute. Afterwards we went to Serious Pie. Tyler Florence from food network told us to go there on The Best Thing I Ever Ate. We ordered 7 PIZZAS. By the end of this I couldn't move. We got buffalo mozzarella, San Marzano tomato pizza. Which was the winner out of the seven.