Snow (Hey Oh)

We had a nice fun trip up to Big Trees on Monday. We drove up and stopped in Angel's Camp first, had lunch at the park there and let the kids run around and play. The real fun part about this park and the others at such elevations are that they are built so that if there's 2 feet of snow on the ground, you can still play there. The thing about that is, when there's no snow on the ground, there's a 3 foot drop off the bottom of the slides. E helped us measure that when she stood next to the bottom of the slide. She went down one without us there to catch her at the bottom and she literally flew off the bottom of the slide. It was very quick and she just floated down and landed on her butt. We were expecting crying, but nope, there wasn't any of that. It was a giddy evilish laugh and she took off to go do it again. We caught her the next time.

From there we went up to Big Trees to let her see snow for the first time. We had her in T's old snow pants and her big jacket, she was fine. Dry and warm. T was in khaki's and a nice jacket. He was fine for a while, then the pants got wet and it got less fun. Though he did enjoy chucking snowballs at his mom. And they both got a thrill out of me pulling them around on a saucer we borrowed from my dad that was made in the early 60's. It's made of steel. It's rugged. It's loud when T pulls it along the street. He even gave some snow a ride for a while, then he wanted to leave it with the other snow so it would be with it's family.



We promised them a stop at another park so we could get them out of the snow and took them to another park in Murphy's where there were tons of kids and they had a great time. There was a stream that they could toss rocks into, so we did that for about 20 minutes. Until their parents were tired of getting rocks for them to throw.


It was a good, long, fun day and another reason why it's great to live in the Bay Area, we can take a day trip to the snow, then come home where it's a comfortable 70 degrees. Ahhh, California. It's nice here.

Also, I know that the images are portrait set in landscape, but I don't know how to change that, if you do, let me know, as I'm kinda annoyed by it.