The longest 14 hours ever

Thursday morning at 1 am we left to drive to Eureka, California. We pulled in to the hotel around 3 pm. We made several stops along the way to try to break up the trip a bit.

We also had our nieces with us, it was their mother's wedding we were headed to and she'd gone down early to deal with wedding preparations. Ashley is 11 and Amber is 8.


AJ fell asleep almost instantly, that's just what he does.




We stopped to visit my grandparents in Creswell, Oregon around 6:30 AM, but I was too groggy to remember to take pictures.

A few hours later we hit the coast, what we could see of it was gorgeous.






We stopped for a bit in the redwoods, there was a tourist attraction featuring gigantic wooden statues of Paul Bunyan and his ox, Blue. The kids loved it, because Paul Bunyan talked, they had a good time trying to figure out how he could hear them (there was a door in the back of his boot, I assume there is a ladder inside for an employee to climb up and "be" Paul from the inside).







Rare picture of Andrew sleeping. He was so good on the trip, but he really didn't sleep all that much.