Saturday, June 23, 2007

Coastal Getaway

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My Mom, the kids, and I spent a couple days over on the north coast.  We started in Trinidad and hung out on the beach and checked out the Humboldt State Marine Lab.  The kids liked being able to touch all the starfish and other sea creatures there.  Jacob was disappointed that he couldn't touch the octopus however, I'm thinking that's a good thing though!  We had a delicious lunch in Trinidad and had fish and chips and clam chowder.


We then headed south and cruised some of the little beach towns and headed into Eureka.  After checking into our hotel, we stopped by the mall to do a little shopping.  We headed back to the hotel and swam in their cool indoor/outdoor pool.  We had another yummy meal and then headed to bed.  We had a rough night when Jacob woke up screaming from an ear ache.  We think he had water trapped in his ear from swimming.  After a couple hours of crying, I headed out to find a remedy at 5am.  Some homeopathic ear drops saved the day and he was snoring minutes later. 


We had a slow start that morning but once we got going, we headed south to Ferndale.  We checked out the town and browsed the shops for awhile.  We then headed back to Eureka where we visited the Sequoia Park Zoo.  Really neat little zoo that's technically free!  After having a late lunch/early dinner in Arcata, we headed home.  A great little mini-trip, aside from Jacob's ear issue of course!  Click here for photos!


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1 comment:

Angela said...

Ooohhh, I loved these--especially the star fish on the beach!