tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76972216005294365042024-02-07T13:00:04.983-08:00Our Family Trek Around the USA - Summer 2012Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-47319293566396972012012-07-29T15:59:00.001-07:002012-07-29T15:59:35.621-07:00Days 63-65 - Lower Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and home!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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So, it is nearing the end of our trip. I can tell everyone is getting to the point where they are just ready to be home. Tempers are shorter, there is less interest in side trips, or doing anything other than getting to our next destination.<br />
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I had originally planned to spend the night two nights in St. Ignace and then
drive straight down to Kentucky, but it would have been a really long
driving day (10.5 hours). So, we decided last week to break this down
into two days and spend the night of Day 63 in Toledo, OH. We also
decided to changed our reservation at that time to a cabin instead of a
tent like we were supposed to because we knew we were going to get in
late. So, when we arrived at St. Ignace very late (11 pm) and it had been raining I was very glad to have a cabin instead of a tent. Thus ended Day 62.<br />
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Day 63 - When we woke up the next morning it was sprinkling which was a foreshadowing of what was to come. We packed the car, got gas, and ate poptarts in the car. We decided not to even go to Mackinac Island because we would have to pay for the ferry over there ($24 per person) and that didn't make sense if we were only going to spend a few hours there. Plus we still had firewood left over from Yellowstone that we needed to burn before we got home. So we thought we'd drive straight to Toledo so we could get there early enough to make a fire. <br />
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As soon as we got on the freeway it started to rain. It rained fairly heavily for several hours and made driving miserable. It was the torrential downpour type of rain you get with thunderstorms, although we saw very little lightening. We stopped in West Branch, MI to eat lunch at Lumber Jack's Food and Spirits. This restaurant was right next to an outlet mall, so we decided to stop by and look for a few things. Moritz needed a new backpack for school and he was able to find one there. He also needed some tennis shoes (trainers) for basketball, so we found a good shoestore and he got shoes there. Daniel and Erin also found new school shoes that they liked. Erin was especially happy because hers were slip-on because she hates tying shoes. I bought a new rain jacket because I didn't have an actual rain coat (just a windbreaker). I also got some new dress shirts for work.<br />
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After that stop we kept on driving on the interstate and it kept on raining. When we got to our KOA stop for the night (really it was out in rural Luckey, OH) we were hoping that it would stop raining so we could make a campfire. We ordered a pizza from a local place and had it delivered because we didn't want to go out in the rain. It did stop raining around 10 pm and the kids made a big fire (Erin got it going with a single match). It burned for several hours and then we let is burn itself out over night (we weren't too worried about it because it was a really good fire pit and the ground was completely saturated. It wasn't a terrible KOA (not as bad as Mt. Rushmore), but it wasn't the best. The showers had very little ability to be adjusted (if you touched the dial it went from cold to scalding instantly). <br />
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The next day we drove through Ohio toward Kentucky. By this point we had passed 10,500 miles of driving (my estimate for the full trip). The one stop I requested was Jungle Jim's in Fairfield, OH. This is my absolutely favorite grocery store in the world. Jungle Jim's has every type of exotic food you could wish. They have cheese from just about every country in the world. They even have a whole section devoted to olives and one aisle just for hot sauces (arranged alphabetically). The rest of the store is divided by country. It has noodles, sauces, jams, canned veggies and tea from all over the world. David had fun because he got to get several new types of tea that he hadn't had before. For example, he's had English breakfast tea and Irish breakfast tea, but at Jungle Jim's he got Scottish breakfast tea. We had a lot of fun wandering around in there -- I just wish we could have had a way to get some of the cheese home (I love cheese!).<br />
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We arrived in Lexington around 7:30 pm and headed directly to Marikka's to eat dinner. The food was great, as usual, and David got to get some of his favorite German beer. After that we went to the Liquor Barn to shop for presents and replenish some of David's stock. We finally checked into our hote and then crashed in bed around 11:00.<br />
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Our final day of the trip (Day 65 -- July 29) started out uneventfully. We got up and got ready to attend church. I was excited because we could attend Faith Lutheran in Lexington -- my old church in Lexington. I don't know what it is about that church, but I always feel centered and balanced when I am at that church. I rarely ever get that feeling at other churches. I'm so happy if we can stop by there at least once a year so I can get my church "fix." My former pastor wasn't there that day and they mentioned something about him retiring, so that is sad. But, I don't think that feeling will disappear at that church, even if they hire another pastor. At least I hope it doesn't disappear or I will have to look somewhere else for my fix.<br />
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After church we ate at our favorite fast-food Italian restaurant -- Fazoli's. Jacksonville could sure use one of those! Then we started driving on I-75 toward home. Right before the Tennessee border we saw that there was road construction on the freeway and they suggested the alternate route of driving on US 25E. We saw that Cumberland Gap National Historic Park was right off the road from that, so we decided to head that way and get another stamp in our passport books. We stopped at the visitor's center and then drove up to Pinnacle Peak. It was an overlook where you could see into Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. In fact, you park in the parking lot in Kentucky and then as you are walking on the path to the overlook you cross over into Virginia. David was excited about this because it means that we have officially been in 25 states on our trip -- Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. That is pretty impressive to me -- 25 of the "large" states in 65 days. A total of 11,600 miles driven ranging in elevation from 20 below sea level to 12,184 feet. <br />
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We will be very excited to get back to Jacksonville! Of course when we get back we will be jumping right into the thick of things. Daniel starts band camp on Monday and Erin has to get an MRI on Monday. Thursday is Erin's pre-operative appointment and we will learn all of the details of her scoliosis surgery on August 13. Somewhere in between all of the band camp practices Daniel also has to audition for chair placement with EYO (Etowah Youth Orchestra -- Wind Ensemble). We will also have to get Moritz registered for school. I also am getting another epidural shot for my back on Friday. So, I think we are going to be really busy for the rest of the month. But, it will still be good to get back into our routine and help Daniel and Moritz get ready for school to start. <br />
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That is pretty much it for the trip portion of our blog. I might post some more on here over the rest of the month to let people know how the kids are doing (particularly Erin's surgery updates), but once we start school I won't have the time to do updates. Thanks for following us through our many travels!<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Lexington, KY, USA38.0405837 -84.503716437.8404992 -84.8195734 38.2406682 -84.187859400000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-85072594417560531062012-07-29T11:34:00.001-07:002012-07-29T11:34:17.814-07:00Day 60 -- The Spam Museum and St. Paul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Day 60 -- I did this post and had it up there, but somehow it disappeared! So, I'll try to remember what happened on Day 60. The main thing I remember happening is that we went to the Spam Museum in Austin, MN on our way to St. Paul. It was interesting to see the history of Hormel and how Spam played a role in WWII. I also got some interesting shots of the kids trying to work on a Spam assembly line putting together cans of Spam. Too funny!<br />
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Then we headed to St. Paul to see David's best friend from childhood and college -- David Burnham. We had a wonderful dinner with them and they put us up for the night. The next morning we saw a few St. Paul landmarks on our way out of town. We saw the Minnesota State Capitol Building and the St. Paul Cathedral. </div>
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<br /></div>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0St Paul, MN, USA44.9537029 -93.089957844.8638084 -93.24788629999999 45.0435974 -92.9320293tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-66175908587003080432012-07-26T20:14:00.003-07:002012-07-29T16:02:20.873-07:00Days 61 & 62 - Hayward, Wisconsin and the U.P.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 61 (July 25) - Today we left St. Paul, MN and drove to Hayward, WI to visit my cousin Kelly and family. On our way we stopped at Interstate State Park (Interstate between Wisconsin and Minnesota). This was an interesting park <br />
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because it is right on the St. Croix River and it should be called "Pothole State Park" because it is full of glacial potholes. This is where when the glaciers melted in the last ice age they drug some rocks under them which became tumbled around in one spot for a long time, so they formed really round rocks which tumbled around in the rock and formed these potholes with the smooth sides. Some are very small (like bowling ball size) and others are huge. We walked all over the park and saw all sorts of these potholes. Then we drove on through Spooner and up to Hayward.<br />
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On our way up we passed through a town called Barronette, WI. David pulled over so we could take a picture of one of the street signs. All of the street names were crazy fractions like this one:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top row left to right: Daniel, David, Aunt Diane, Cousin Kelly, Kelly's husband Rob, Cousin Matt, Uncle Andy; Bottom row: Erin, Heidi, Rylie, Chase</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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I haven't seen Kelly and family since her wedding 8 years ago. I was very happy to see their new house and see her kids. Rylie - almost 7 and Chase - almost 4 were extremely cute and had fun playing with our kids. For dinner Aunt Diane, Uncle Andy, and cousin Matt came over. We had a typical Wisconsin dinner - grilled brats, onions, fruit salad, and potato salad. It was a really good dinner and everyone enjoyed it. The kids slept in the basement and David and I got Rylie's room. Aunt Diane was a bit frazzled because she is preparing to host the Lumberjack World Championship in Hayward this coming weekend. But, she brought all of the kids lumberjack t-shirts, so they really liked it (Moritz even wore his all the next day).<br />
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The following morning we drove across the upper peninsula of Michigan, called the U.P. and the people who live there are known as the Yoopers. We even stopped at a place called The Yooper Tourist Trap. They had all sorts of funny stories about the Yoopers. It was great!<br />
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As we continued to drive across the state we saw signs for pasties and we didn't know what that was (we thought it might be pasta mispelled). So, when I had cell signal, I looked it up. Turns out it is like a meat pie and that the Cornish miners brought the recipe over with them. It has meat, potatoes, carrots, onions, and rutabagas in them. So, we stopped at Muldune's Pasties in Munising, Michigan. We even got an interesting Yooper magnet at the restaurant. The pasty was pretty good!<br />
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After dinner we drove up to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore to look around and we got a picture of Munising Falls, but didn't get too much further in the park because it was already going to be 10:30 by the time we got all the way across the U.P. to St. Ignace to spend the night.<br />
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It is interesting to be this far north and right on the edge of Eastern time because it is 9:30 pm as I write this and it is just now dusk. I'm guessing it won't be totally dark until 10 pm.<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Hayward, WI 54843, USA46.0130065 -91.484620845.990951 -91.524102800000009 46.035062 -91.4451388tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-77925120366414118562012-07-25T08:57:00.003-07:002012-07-25T08:57:27.812-07:00Day 59 - The Badlands<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Badlands -- Valleys made via erosion</td></tr>
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We did get up at 5:30, despite being kept up late by noisy neighbors (earplugs do occasionally come in handy). We loaded up the car and bungee-corded everything in so it wouldn't fall out. We made it to the dealer a little after 8 am and they agreed to try to work us in. So we sat in the waiting room (and I caught up on grading) for 3 hours. They finally had our van ready. The problem? Our lift gate needed a software update! Moritz found it especially funny that we needed a software update for our trunk to work.<br />
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So, we got on the road about when we normally do -- 11 am. We stopped for lunch almost immediately at Hardees where we ran into someone from Florida whose brother lived in Dothan. After lunch we went to a Black Hills Gold store (aptly named "Gold Diggers") and I bought a pair of Black Hills Gold earrings to match my necklace.<br />
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Then we got on the interstate and drove to Wall, South Dakota. What is Wall known for? Wall Drug, of course. They have signs for it all over the world. My favorite picture I have is of the sign for Wall Drug outside of Centraal Station in Amsterdam. It says something like 5397 miles to Wall Drug, Wall, South Dakota, USA. So we had to go in -- if for no other reason than to say we'd been there. Of course we got separated inside and it took a while to find each other, but we did get some new lip balm for David (he'd been looking for a particular type for a while and we hadn't been able to find it), plus we got a magnet for South Dakota and some doughnuts to snack on in the car. <br />
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After leaving Wall Drug we headed south to the scenic drive through the Badlands. It was exceptionally hot through there -- over 100 degrees. The kids often didn't want to get out of the car, but David and I stopped at several of the overlooks. They say it looks like the surface of the moon -- dusty and rocky. The hills erode every time there is a major storm and they expect they will be entirely gone in 500,000 years. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hills in the Badlands</td></tr>
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We also got some gifts at the gift store for my cousin Kelly's kids and David Burnham's kids. Then we got back on the road and drove through the really boring part of South Dakota. We stopped briefly in Mitchell, SD to see the Corn Palace. Apparently there had been a rodeo there over the past week, so it was done up really nice. Last time my mom and I went to the Corn Palace (in something like 1996), we saw people from Union, OR there. Through Facebook I found out that someone from Union that I went to high school with (Holly James -- now Holly Loew) was at Mt. Rushmore the same day I was. Too funny! <br />
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After the Corn Palace we drove to Sioux Falls, SD which is almost on the Minnesota border. Although we got in really late, the people at that KOA were super nice and helpful getting us settled in. We were staying in a cabin, so that was nice (it was 11 pm when we got in). But, the air conditioning hadn't been on and it was still 85 degrees or so, even at 11 pm. Despite it being quite warm in the cabin most of the night, I think everyone slept pretty well (better than in the tent). We got up the following morning and checked out by 11 am. The people in the KOA office said that we had fared better than some people from the Mt. Rushmore KOA during that big thunderstorm -- one family that came in said their tent was washed away by a flash flood during that storm. Also, we read in the newspaper that several trailers on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation had been flattened by straight line wind. Also, there were several new fires that had been started by the lightening. So, I guess we were pretty lucky!<br />
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Today we head to David Burnham's house in St. Paul, then the next day to my cousin Kelly's house in Hayward, WI. <br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-21040815641006221252012-07-23T21:31:00.000-07:002012-07-23T21:31:39.606-07:00Days 57 to 58 - Devil's Tower, Crazy Horse, Rain, Mt. Rushmore, Jewel Cave, and Car Trouble<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 57 (July 21) - When we got to Devil's Tower last night we discovered we had another converted RV as our "Park Model" cabin. This one, however, didn't have a bed in the loft. So, Erin had to blow up an air mattress to put on the floor. We also decided that we should do laundry while we are here because everyone was running out of clothes (especially Moritz who packed light). We discovered that there were two laundry rooms with three washers/dryers at each of them. So, we left Daniel and Moritz at one of them with one set of clothes and David and I sat at the other one (where I finally finished the first Yellowstone post!). Erin was left at the "cabin" to take a shower. Unfortunately, no one turned on the hot water for her, so she had a cold shower by herself. But, at least we got everything washed and repacked!<br />
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The next morning we woke up to view Devil's Tower which was literally on our doorstep. We drove up to the base of the tower and saw people climbing up its sheer cliffs. Apparently it is a popular climbing destination for people who want to climb the sheer basalt cliffs.<br />
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After we viewed Devil's Tower we drove the backroads of Wyoming over the South Dakota border into the Black Hills. We first stopped by Jewel Cave to see if we could take a tour, but they were sold out for the day. So, we bought tickets for the following afternoon's tour. <br />
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Next we drove to the Crazy Horse Monument and paid to go into the Indian Cultural Center. We didn't really mean to pay to go in, but once you are in the lane, you can't really turn around. So, Daniel and the kids went in and watched the movie about Crazy Horse. I worked in the car for a bit and then walked around a bit, took a few pictures, and returned to the car because I couldn't find David. <br />
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Then we drove to our campsite at Mt. Rushmore KOA. This campsite was interesting because it was combined with Palmer Gulch Resort which had a lodge and fancier cabins. Our campsite was at the top of a hill between another campsite and a really fancy cabin with a bunch of people. We set up the tent right before it started raining. At first we thought it was going to be a passing thunderstorm like we had had at Colorado Springs. So, we thought we would go to eat dinner why the storm was going by. As we started driving toward Custer, we got very heavy rain and some huge hail (the weather alert said there was quarter-sized hail in the area). We picked a "German" restaurant at the Bavarian Inn. It was decorated like a German restaurant and had a few German dishes, but it also had a lot of non-German dishes. We were excited to find some German food and to get out of the rain. Of course they were busy (everyone comes in when it rains!), so we had to sit at two separate tables. The whole while we ate it stormed with a lot of lightening and thunder. Then, at the end of the meal, right after we had been served dessert, the owner came around and said that her credit card machine's modem had been hit by lightening and had been fried. So, we had to pay in cash. Boy were the patrons unhappy! Most of us had planned on paying with a card and several didn't even have enough cash to cover their meal. She wasn't very understanding about this -- she kept saying that we should have enough money to cover our meals. Then the people said they did -- on the credit card. Luckily we were able to use our "emergency" cash in our wallet to pay for our meal.<br />
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By the time we left the storm had let up and we thought it was over. When we got back to the KOA, we went into the office and asked if there was a covered area somewhere we could play games since our picnic table was wet and the tent was fairly wet (but it hadn't leaked)! The lady said that we could use the pancake tent where they served breakfast. It was this big white tent that fit five rows of plastic picnic tables. As we drove to it, we could see where there had been a flash flood through the camp and about 6 inches of gravel had washed down from the hillside onto the lower paved road. We sat in the very middle of the tent and started a game of Tripoli with matches as our tokens (I had found the box of wooden matches buried in the back, so we each could have 50 matches to play with -- yes, we did tell our kids to play with matches!!!). As we started our game, it started to rain and storm again. It continued to have torrential downpours, bright lightening that was very close, and huge thunderclaps for the next two hours. David called it a gully-washer! At about 11:00 it had slowed down a bit and Moritz really had to go to the bathroom, so we left the tent. We thought the road up to the bathroom may not be passable because when we went by it after the first storm went through there were a bunch of KOA people trying to repair the road at that time because there was a 6 inch deep trench down the side of the road. So, we aimed to just drive up to our campsite and walk down to the bathroom. We made it up there by staying in a low gear and just keeping going over the large rocks and trenches in the road. When we walked down to the bathroom, the sight was even worse than before -- there was a foot deep trench down the middle of the road and the gravel at the bottom of the hill was over a foot deep. The KOA people were out in force trying to deal with flooding, washouts, and all of these other problems. After washing up we headed up to our tent just as it started raining again. There were a few puddles in the tent, <br />
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but it stayed mostly dry (which was pretty amazing given how much water was coming down. After we got in the tent it rained off and on most of the night, but stopped by the morning. Of course by 7 am they were out with the road grader trying to make the roads passable again.<br />
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At 2:30 we headed to Jewel Cave for our 4:00 tour. We went down into the cave (the 2nd longest cave in the world) and saw the calcite crystals. The walls were covered with them! They had all of the usual cave formations in abundance, but also had tons of crystals, up to 6 inches thick on the walls. It was really pretty!<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Mt Rushmore National Memorial, Black Hills National Forest, 13000 State Highway 244, Keystone, SD 57751, USA43.8825866 -103.454066943.8711421 -103.4738079 43.894031100000007 -103.4343259tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-63761784863531691342012-07-23T19:04:00.002-07:002012-07-23T19:04:25.274-07:00Days 55 & 56 - Yellowstone (Mud Volcano, Tower Fall, Mammoth Hot Springs)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 55 (July 19) we headed north on the eastern side of the
grand loop and went north through Mud Volcano and Hayden meadow (where we saw a
whole heard of buffalo) to Tower Fall. We then went up to Mammoth Hot Springs and Montana (to say
we’d been to another state on this trip).
We toured the travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs and then ate
dinner at the grill there. We
headed back down the western side of the grand loop and crossed over to the
southeastern road. We didn’t see
much on the way back, except at one point where we had to stop in the middle of
the Hayden meadow while the park rangers dealt with a Prius that hit a
buffalo. Once again we got back to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lower Yellowstone Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wildflowers in Yellowstone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellowstone River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Petrified Redwood Tree</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North Yellowstone Entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roosevelt Arch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Travertine Formations at Mammoth Hot Springs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David and Heidi at Mammoth Hot Springs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moritz and Daniel at Mammoth Hot Springs</td></tr>
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Friday morning we awoke to the sound of rain. It wasn’t a heavy rain, but enough rain
to make putting away the tent difficult.
We got somewhat dirty trying to fold up the tent. We also had to try to put the leftover
firewood into the car (we meant to build another campfire last night, but got
back too late). So, the firewood
is now next to Erin in the backseat next to the carpet we bought in Oregon
along with the plastic bag full of clothes that Katlin gave Erin. Hopefully we get the chance to do
laundry in the next few days because everyone is getting a bit low on clean
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After packing up the tent and heading out of Yellowstone we
drove through Wyoming towards Devil’s Tower. We drove over more of the Rocky Mountains and through
Bighorn National Forest where we saw a deer on the side of the road and came
down out of the mountains. For the
first time in several weeks we are going to be at a lower elevation than 5000
feet (Yellowstone is between 7000 and 9000 feet in elevation). This is probably the last time David
will get to drive a big, long, twisty road that has huge elevation changes in a
few miles. In the car we listened
to a series of lectures on philosophy of mind and then watch Close Encounters
of the Third Kind (because we are on our way to Devil’s Tower!). Tomorrow we head to Mt. Rushmore!</div>
Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA44.9668798 -110.71215544.9556453 -110.73189599999999 44.9781143 -110.692414tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-85654502031149901602012-07-20T21:54:00.003-07:002012-07-20T22:20:05.170-07:00Day 54 - Yellowstone (Old Faithful)<style>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkRkqpCnLE9Ftr3CcyGGuLZVJ0s2WMdNU_8OAuTPTL3WXu3MzT_TDu8Vk0RAklP67XbYz7iT9mAj0St7BLYJusQTihF37QYUi0FzAbK8XkRSyfHZiQRuLbgnwrdEJTsdDyVHI10t1jAzH/s1600/IMG_9642.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkRkqpCnLE9Ftr3CcyGGuLZVJ0s2WMdNU_8OAuTPTL3WXu3MzT_TDu8Vk0RAklP67XbYz7iT9mAj0St7BLYJusQTihF37QYUi0FzAbK8XkRSyfHZiQRuLbgnwrdEJTsdDyVHI10t1jAzH/s320/IMG_9642.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;">Day 54 (July 18) started with our
morning in Yellowstone. We decided
on this day that we would drive to the western part of the park where Old
Faithful and the other hydrothermal features. We drove over toward Old Faithful Lodge and ate lunch at
their cafeteria. Then we got to
see Old Faithful go off. It was
somewhat impressive, but not as exciting as you would expect given all of the
hype. After Old Faithful we walked
around the other geysers in that same basin. We were lucky enough to get over by Grand Geyser when it was
scheduled to go off. That geyser
was much more impressive in its eruption.
We also got to see many of the pretty pools of color and hot
springs. After we finished looking
at that area, we headed to the gift store and got huckleberry ice cream for a
snack. Next we moved north and saw
the grand prismatic spring and the upper geyser basins (called the Fountain Paint Pot area). After that we drove to the Canyon area
and ate a very late dinner at its cafeteria. We didn’t get back to our campsite until around 10:30 pm.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Faithful (pre-eruption)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the people watching it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During eruption phase</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear pool (really hot)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Geyser</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Geyser and Vent Geyser going simultaneously</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grotto Geyser about to erupt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grotto Geyser erupting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bacterial mats</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivid green-colored thermophiles (heat-loving bacteria)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White hot water running off geyser into Firehole River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bacterial mats</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edge of Grand Prismatic Spring</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fountain Geyser</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge by Firehole Drive Geysers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black Thermophiles - Thus "Black Lake"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Hopeful Geyser</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fountain Paintpot Geyser</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hotsprings in Fountain Paintpot area</td></tr>
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Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA44.4604887 -110.828822444.4491557 -110.8485634 44.4718217 -110.80908140000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-53496146447750759422012-07-20T19:14:00.000-07:002012-07-20T19:20:56.081-07:00Day 53 (continued) - Yellowstone (West Thumb)Day 53 -- As I mentioned in the previous post, there were a few pictures I wanted to post from the Grand Tetons and the West Thumb region of Yellowstone Lake. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pronghorn Antelope in Grand Tetons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historic Mormon Barn with Tetons in Background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel by Colter Bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entrance to Yellowstone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fishing Cone in Yellowstone Lake (where fisherman used to catch then boil their fish)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mudpot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking deep into Hot Springs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel in front of a Lewis Falls in Yellowstone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Lewis Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Lewis Falls</td></tr>
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<br /></div>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190, USA44.4362257 -110.524478344.390874700000005 -110.6034423 44.4815767 -110.4455143tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-69259312790412230992012-07-20T17:29:00.003-07:002012-07-20T17:29:55.155-07:00Days 52 to 53 – Grand Teton National Park
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had to stay on the 3<sup>rd</sup> floor of the Super 8 (no elevator).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got to Jackson, we weren’t
hungry for dinner so we decided to play our new Tripoli game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did come with some poker chips with
which to play, but it was not nearly enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That it, it takes a minimum of 9 chips per round (typically
around 12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we had to
supplement the chips very quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We used all sorts of things – DS video games, Tylenol pills, drink mix
pouches, Euro coins, American coins, etc. to supplement our stock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erin and David definitely smoked the
rest of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moritz and I lost the most
tokens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After playing for a long
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The next morning we headed up to the Grand Tetons to hike
and explore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we first got
into the park we headed to the Jenny Lake area because I read that the Hidden
Falls trail would be accessible to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, we started out our hike around Jenny Lake, up to Hidden Falls, and
then on up to Inspiration Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we got about ½ mile around Jenny Lake, people coming toward us told
us there was a bear on the trail ahead of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people right ahead of us decided to turn around, rather
than go by the bear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to
send the kids ahead (Daniel was deemed to be bear bait because he was carrying
the bag that had food in it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
told Daniel he could sing, trumpet, or make any other loud noises that he
wanted to while going down the trail (because you are supposed to make noises
to scare the bear away).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we got
close, we saw the grizzly bear off the trail to our left, not far away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We took pictures, but didn’t get too
close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bear didn’t pay much
attention to us or any of the other hikers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it was neat to get close to the bear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After that we didn’t have any other surprises on our hike up
to Hidden Falls or Inspiration Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On our hike back we didn’t see the bear at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On our hike back down we decided that
we should go out to eat some exotic food since this seemed the place to try
bison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we called and made
reservations at the Gun Barrel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
our way out of the park we stopped at Menor’s Ferry homestead location and saw
the old Episcopal church located in the park which was absolutely beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Also, we got to see a summer thunderstorm move in over the mountain -- it was stunning!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hidden Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David by Jenny Lake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids climbing rocks by Jenny Lake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspiration Point</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspiration Point</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdfFovoLLLt771CtyZs3zgTisY_n2ddWVu_0SHkUo3QKpSWISE7sNx5MwxJNz7cUCClUTVFUvRO7ZUJqyCh7NVdHHSVltNCeFobO8G1FHbW7QjD9N_DmO0grFN3e5pftewkNbI2wLmURW/s1600/IMG_8615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a> When we to the Gun Barrel Steakhouse, we had a great
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniel and Moritz got
the buffalo ribs and David got the mixed game grill (venison bratwurst, buffalo
prime rib, and elk steak).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
buffalo prime rib was wonderful!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone thought it was the best of all of the food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Also, we got to see lots of interesting things at this restaurant because it used to be a museum.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By "Winchester" because that's what he was shot with</td></tr>
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The next day we had to get up early for our sunrise float
trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to be in the park
before 6 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we first got to
the Visitor’s Center we saw a coyote in the parking lot, but some of the other
people there saw a moose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a
great float down the Snake River and saw some great views of the Grand
Tetons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, we didn’t see
much game, other than several bald eagles and one elk.</div>
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After the float trip we went back to the hotel, showered,
and packed up the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we
went to the Bunnery to eat brunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>David, Erin, and I all got French Toast (but on three different types of
bread).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we started our drive
up to Yellowstone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of Hidden Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hidden Falls Trail</td></tr>
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centers and viewpoints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
crossing over into Yellowstone’s south entrance, we stopped to see one of the
waterfalls and got to see a lot of the areas that burned in the 1988 fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we stopped in the West Thumb basin
and saw many of the hydrothermal pools and famous features, such as fishing
cone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We finally got to our
campsite around 6 pm and set up our tent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was Moritz’s introduction to camping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After we set up the campsite we went over to the Lake area
and got food from the Lake Lodge cafeteria. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After dinner we headed back to our campsite and set
fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniel and Moritz worked a
long while to make the fire burn, but it took forever to get the fire going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About when the fire was going good was
when we needed to go to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
played Pirate Fluxx (card game) that night and we had fun with the card that
said that you got to draw an extra card if you talked like a pirate during your
turn.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storm coming in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storm in the Tetons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the storm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin on the Snake River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of us on the Snake River Float Trip</td></tr>
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Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com1Grand Teton National Park, 101 Moose, Jackson, WY 83001, USA43.8113221 -110.65502243.4446611 -111.286736 44.1779831 -110.023308tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-47324437673235343592012-07-20T16:01:00.001-07:002012-07-20T16:01:55.477-07:00Days 49 to 51 - Utah State University<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Day 49 (July 13) started out with Daniel's campus tour of Utah State University (USU). We all got to hear about the majors offered at USU and see all of the new buildings. It made me really want to go back to school there. I think Daniel was impressed by their programs. One thing he learned was that engineering students could live together in one of the dorms so they would have a built-in support system. He also was told that he could double major in music and engineering or minor in music and that was perfectly acceptable. Also, the engineering program has a specific study abroad in Germany so he really liked that idea. He got to meet with both a music advisor and an engineering advisor to hear about the programs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner at Tandoori Oven in Logan</td></tr>
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After the tour we got to eat lunch in the Hub (a food court) and then we got ice cream at Aggie Ice Cream. We also saw some of the engineering labs such as the space engineering lab. Then we went down town and shopped at the sidewalk sales (buying Daniel some dress pants and Erin a new dress). We also got to go into a music/book store and bought a new board game for us to play. After all of this we ate dinner at Tandoori Oven (the wonderful Indian restaurant that is in a gas station).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">T-shirt Daniel got at the Utah Festival Opera</td></tr>
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The next day we went shopping for a bit, including picking up Daniel's pants from hemming. Then we went on a tour of Aggie Ice Cream (and got another ice cream cone). We went to Gia's for dinner (which wasn't wonderful) and then went to the Utah Festival Opera and Music Theater production of Kiss Me, Kate. That was a wonderful performance and we got two great t-shirts from there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">T-shirt I got at the Utah Festival Opera</td></tr>
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The next day we packed up and headed up to Jackson, WY. We drove through Logan Canyon and saw people rock climbing, canoeing, and camping. Then we passed by Bear Lake, where we ate pizza for lunch. We got the 2nd largest pizza and could barely finish it. They had a huge pizza (24" diameter) with a wall of fame of those who finished it (see photo), but we didn't try it. David did buy some chocolate-covered raspberries to try.<br />
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We drove through some very desolate places in Idaho until we finally crossed into Wyoming, and then finally to Jackson, WY. Our Super 8 there wasn't great (Erin had to sleep on the floor), but it was okay for the price.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner at Tandoori Oven in Logan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moritz being silly trying on a tux jacket</td></tr>
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com2Logan, UT, USA41.7369803 -111.833835941.6895853 -111.9127999 41.7843753 -111.7548719tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-72797893495609683842012-07-14T23:41:00.001-07:002012-07-14T23:41:45.933-07:00Days 45 to 48 -- Cornucopia Lodge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 45 (July 9) - We left Union on Monday morning to drive to Cornucopia. We took all of the backroads so Moritz could see how truly desolate Eastern Oregon is. We arrived in Cornucopia around lunch time and took Moritz down to the horse corral to meet Erin after lunch. Then we decided to take a 4 mile (round trip) hike up the valley along an old wagon road that followed Pine Creek up toward the Queen of the West mill. I wore sandals and waded through the creek several times to cool off! We got to walk across four different types of bridges in the valley and it was really interesting. I also found some pretty green rocks with quartz in them that I packed back in my pant's pocket. We also ran into Mark while he was leading a horse and mule down the trail after taking someone up to Pine Lake.<br />
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When we got back it was close to dinner time, but we still headed out to try out the zip-line that Daniel and Dad had fixed
while we were gone. All of the horse-camp kids (including Erin) had
gone on it already and trampled down all of the bushes at the end and so
there was no threat of getting stung by stinging nettles (like I had
when I was working to set up the zip-line). We all rode on it (including my mom) and had
great fun! Katlin even has video somewhere of Erin riding it upside down with the other horse-campers.<br />
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After my mom and dad went back to the lodge to fix dinner, we decided to see if Scout (Katlin's dog) could zip-line. I had taken him down on the toboggan (wooden sled) in the winter when we were there for Christmas and he seemed to like it. So, we decided to try to fit the harness on him and send him down the zip line. Daniel and I tried to get the harness on him, but he wouldn't stand still. When Katlin tried it he stood perfectly still and was very patient. She finally got it on him, but we had to do some jerry-rigging to get it to distribute his weight evenly. We then got him on the small little line to the side of the main line to see if it would hold his weight or hurt him. At first he was scared when we dropped him off the platform and he tried to grab onto the ladder with his paw. But, once he figured out we weren't going to hurt him, he seemed okay with it. Next, we strapped him to the main line and dropped him over the edge and he seemed to be happy to go down the line. Moritz shot a video of it from the end of the line and you can see it here:<br />
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She submitted it to the YouTube Purina Contest -- How Great is Your Dog?<br />
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After dinner Moritz was tired. He was ready for bed by 8:00 because he had
woken up at 4:45 am that morning because his body was still adjusting to
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Day 46 (July 10) - Today we went on a
horseback ride up to the Union-Companion mine. Katlin and I had ridden
up there with Lisa, but the boys missed out and really wanted to go up
there. So, we rode up and searched for gold. We found a lot of fool's
gold, but we did find some copper and silver. So we packed these rocks
back home in our pockets.<br />
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Day 47 (July 11) - Today we all went down to Halfway to run errands and do laundry. Katlin got me all of Erin's laundry so I could do it before we headed out again. I washed everything in her bag because it was so dirty! Moritz and I kept watch over the dryers while David and Daniel got their hair cut. Katlin thought they were crazy for trusting someone in Halfway to cut their hair, but it looks fine to me. After the clothes were dry, we checked out two stores that my mom said we should look at. One was a thrift store and we bought 3 games for 50 cents each. We got Tripoli (which I played as a kid -- it's a card game that combines Hearts, Poker, and Michigan rummy), a junior Trivial Pursuit deck (which we asked questions of all the kids in the car), and TwixT (a really old strategy game). Then we went into a local craft store next door and ended up buying rugs. They are handmade by a local guy and one was a silk rug and one was a wool rug. They are both really pretty and will fit well in our house. When we got back to the lodge we had to work on packing the car again. You'd think that we would have a lot more room, but Katlin had a whole sack of clothes and shoes for Erin and that took up most of the extra space in the back seat with her. That, plus Moritz's suitcase pretty much filled the car up to the level it was when Bow and Jaeyong were with us. After packing everything we had one last go on the zip-line because it was so much fun.<br />
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Day 48 (July 12) - Katlin went and got Erin for us in the morning right after breakfast so we could get ready to go. We packed the rest of our things into the car, said our goodbyes, and headed out bright and early (11 am). Then we made it as far as Halfway before we hit road construction and had to wait 20 minutes for the pilot car. We traveled through Hells Canyon and then through Idaho where we got to see several wildfires smoldering on the side of the road. Finally, after 9 hours of traveling we pulled into Logan. The best thing we discovered that night was that we had two separate bedrooms in our Holiday Inn Express and two bathrooms. That made it so much easier for showering and getting ready!<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Cornucopia, OR 97834, USA45.008333 -117.19166744.9971065 -117.21140799999999 45.0195595 -117.171926tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-16575943533699585772012-07-08T22:50:00.003-07:002012-07-08T22:50:46.794-07:00Day 44 -- Moritz arrives!<br />
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Today Moritz arrived from Germany.
He had a long flight over from Hannover to Amsterdam to Portland, but he
did arrive in one piece. I’m still
amazed that his program would only allow him to bring one suitcase for the
entire year. I couldn’t pack like
that! He said that he was tired
because he couldn’t sleep on the plane, but he was excited to be here. We took him to lunch at Shari’s (again
so David could have another piece of pie). Moritz tried the chicken and waffles (which had an interesting
combination of country gravy and maple syrup as sauces) and he said that it was
quite good. He polished off
everything on his plate and then was happy to try some pie along with David. This time David got the Northwest berry
trio (marionberries, blueberries, and raspberries) and Moritz tried the
marionberry pie since we said that marionberries were unique to Oregon (they
are from Marion county where Salem is).
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along the waterfall route, rather than drive the freeway, so we could stop and
see some of the waterfalls that you can’t get to from the freeway. First stop we made was at Vista House
on Crown Point which is on top of the ridge overlooking the Columbia River
Gorge. So we got to see how
beautiful the gorge is. Then we
came down and stopped at Sheppard Glen where the water was tumbling down in an
almost waterfall (closer to a water ride at a water park). It was really pretty! Then we stopped at Bridal Veil falls and
hiked down to the bottom of it and then back up. I think tired out Moritz because after that he started to
doze off. Once we passed Horsetail
Falls and Multnomah Falls, he fell asleep in the car. He slept the rest of the way up the gorge and missed seeing
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if Daniel survived his 6 hour horse ride while we were gone (he was going to go
up on Saturday to help Mark with the customers because Mark’s back was giving
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at 10:30 pm: We did get to Union later that night after eating Chinese
food in La Grande. Prissy (the cat) is very attention-starved and so
happy to see people. Joey (the dog) also seems happy to see people. We
also started some laundry here, but plan to leave fairly early in the
morning to get back up to the lodge. Moritz is dead asleep -- he is
very tired.<br />
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<br /></div>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Portland, OR, USA45.5234515 -122.676207145.345457 -122.9920641 45.701446 -122.3603501tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-12527983833618657182012-07-08T22:47:00.005-07:002012-07-08T22:47:52.759-07:00Days 41 to 43 -- Cornucopia and Portland, OR<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mom, Dad, Katlin, and Me on July 4 playing Pinochle and waiting for the fireworks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katlin, Lisa, and Scout on the U-C mine tailings</td></tr>
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July
5 we decided to go on a horse ride. At first a few of Lisa's boys were
going to go, but it ended up being just Lisa, Katlin, and me. So all
three sisters got to go on a ride together up to the Union-Companion
Mine. We rode up there and then got off our horses and went exploring.
We went over the side of the tailings (creating small rock slides as we
went) and then went down by the ponds that were created by the water
coming out of the mine. We found all sorts of old metal and glass
objects -- nails, spikes, a squashed mine car underneath the edge of the
tailings pile, and even a metal gear which had to weigh 40 lbs. Then
we looked through the tailings pile to see if we could find any gold and
Katlin and Lisa both found some. We couldn't get into the mine itself
because the entrance collapsed during the last major snowstorm a few
years ago. But, we could ride up to the old manager's house (what the
mine workers referred to as the mansion). Its foundation is still
standing and you can see the chimneys which still reach 3 stories into
the air. We also looked at where the other old outbuildings used to be
and found lots of historic debris (bedpans, springs, porcelain pieces,
etc.). Then Katlin took us down the mountain via another route which
was in the trees and very pretty.<br />
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The
next day Dad put us to work on the zip line. He has been wanting to
get the zip line up and running so that we can ride it before we leave.
There have been several major challenges though -- one of the most
difficult to conquer has been trying to get it tight enough to not drag
the person on the ground. So, this time he was trying a location where
it didn't matter if there was some slack -- over a large ravine.
Daniel, Katlin, Dad, and I worked for several hours to try to get this
zip line to work. We got the starting point finished (finally, after
many attempts) and then tried to get it so the line would run to the end
point. Our problem was that the drop wasn't steep enough. We tested
the line using the fence post driver and heavy metal pipe and they would
only go down about half way before they'd stop and we'd have to climb
down the ravine to fetch it and bring it back. Finally we though we had
it about right for a person, so we sent Daniel down it. Unfortunately
he still didn't go far enough and I had to go pull him up. The harness
was also too tight on him and now he's slightly worried that we won't be
able to have children (he said the ride down was "painful."). So, I
guess we need to put some more slack in it or tie it off on a lower
tree.<br />
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July 7 we headed to Portland to get Moritz. We left
Cornucopia after breakfast and gathered two loads of dirty laundry to do
at my parents' house in Union and then drove to La Grande. We stopped
there to visit with my Grandma Ream. When we stopped she had a project
for me -- try to figure out where her camera was saving her pictures and
where it was making new folders for those pictures. I tried to figure
it out, but I'm not sure I was successful. We also got to see some of
the old pictures from when my mom was a kid. My Uncle Kenny had them
stored in his attic and they were all on slides. My grandfather had
numbered and labeled every single slide in the box (all 480 of them),
but they had gotten out of order. So, David and I volunteered to help
put them in order and then take them to Walmart to be put on a disc. I
was quite impressed that they would be able put them on disc so quickly
and that it would cost so little - around $15). We ordered 6 discs so
that all of the kids in the family could have one (Uncle Michael, Uncle
Kenny, Aunt Diane, and my mom), she could keep one, and we could keep
one. There were pictures of when my mom was a kid, Yosemite (my grandma
and grandpa climbing some of the exact trails we just climbed at
Yosemite), and their big cross-country trip which is similar to ours.
The main differences is that they were much more careful in taking their
pictures because film was much more expensive than digital. I mean,
I've taken nearly 7,000 pictures thus far on our trip. Not all of them
are great, but I can just hit the delete button if they don't turn out.
They didn't have that option back when my mom was little (or even when I
was a kid)! Daniel and Erin only know digital and have no concept of
film cameras, much less slides and slide projectors. My how the times
have changed!<br />
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Also when we were in La Grande we got the car washed
(it was filthy from the dirt roads in Cornucopia) and the oil changed
(since we just passed the 7,000 mile mark). They said everything else
on the car looked fine, so I guess it is holding up on this trip! After
finishing up in La Grande and dropping off my Grandmother's slides to a
Walmart person (who said they planned to pawn off the very tedious job
of turning slides into digital photos to someone else), we drove over to
Pendleton. We stopped at the Pendleton Woolen Mill to look and see if
there were any more wool socks that would fit Erin. We found an outlet
store in Seaside and had bought several pairs of socks for me, David,
Daniel, and my mom, but Erin insisted that she'd never wear them because
she didn't like long socks. I still bought a pair for her and insisted
that she take them to horse camp with her. When I saw her at the 4th
of July celebration I asked her if she had used the socks and she said
that she had worn them several days and really liked them. But, David
and I came up dry -- no socks in her size. After that detour we headed
to Portland to meet up with my mom who had driven down earlier in the
day to drop off horse camp girls. By the time we made it down there she
had finished up her Walmart run and was ready for dinner. We went to
Shari's because I know David loves their pies. He got the last piece of
blackberry lemon sour cream pie and was in 7th heaven! It was a very
good pie piece! Mom and I shared a chocolate lava cake with ice cream
which was also quite good. Then we checked in to our seedy motel (a
very cheap Travelodge) and went to bed. Mom had to leave early in the
morning to get two girls from an 8:15 flight and then leave Portland by
9:30. We were going to be a bit later because Mortiz's flight wasn't
scheduled until 11:25 am and he would have to go through customs which
would taken even longer.<br />
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really liked Erin and that she had made several friends who
planned to keep in touch with her.
So, it seems like she is having a really good time!<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-57393729289977122102012-07-08T22:43:00.000-07:002012-07-08T22:43:39.601-07:00Days 37-40 Cornucopia Lodge<style>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cornucopia Lodge</td></tr>
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Days 37-40 (July 1 to July 4). On July 1 (my birthday) we drove from Seattle to Cornucopia Lodge to visit my parents. The drive was fairly uneventful, except that when we were just passed Snoqualmie Pass the car in front of us's cartop carrier popped open and all of their sleeping bags and tent came flying out. David swerved to try and miss some of the stuff, but we still ran over one of their sleeping bags (it made a quiet "pop" as it went under the car in one piece and then opened and left the undercarriage of the car totally unrolled. I hope it wasn't too badly damaged, but there wasn't much we could do about it.<br />
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We got to Cornucopia around supper time (6:30 or so) and then immediately took Erin down to horse camp so she could begin to get to know the other girls who had arrived a few hours earlier. Apparently she immediately volunteered to help out with the dishes and then sweeping the tack room, so everyone had a very positive impression of her right off. <br />
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We got the cabin nearest to the lodge for our own (two bedrooms -- one with two twin beds for Daniel and Moritz to share). The cabin has electricity provided through a generator which charges a set of car batteries. But, you want to save electricity as much as possible so you are encouraged to turn off the electricity when you leave your cabin. This has been hard for David to learn and he has had to go back several times to turn off the electricity.<br />
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That night we helped to clean up the office upstairs and move Katlin's bed in so that she had somewhere to sleep. The next day we did some more cleaning and switched Katlin's bed into the bedroom and moved Mom and Dad's bed into the office so they wouldn't wake her up in the morning. After cleaning, I wandered around to the big creek and took lots of pictures of rocks, trees, flowers, etc.<br />
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On July 3, Mom took us over to the old ghost town of Cornucopia. It's a bit of misnomer that it is a ghost town because although there are many abandoned buildings which are old and falling down, there are also some new cabins and cabins that have been kept up by people for summer use. No one lives up there year round anymore, but there were a fair number of people up there for the 4th of July holiday. We took photos of some of the buildings and then went over to the mine shaft that is directly across from our property. It is the Coulter shaft of the Union-Companion mine, but it was originally established as its own separate mine. All of the tunnels in the mountain (all 32 miles of tunnels) are interconnected, so it is hard to tell one mine from another. From what I've read, this mine shaft was originally started very low on the mountain (Cornucopia is only about 5000 ft. in elevation) and when the Union-Companion mine blasted down low enough to reach them (the U-C mine starts about 6800 ft. in elevation), it caused all of the water which had been collecting in the lower levels of the U-C mine to drain out. So, they were very happy to have this lower outlet to let out a bunch of the water. The mines were originally opened around 1889 and continued production until 1941 when the US government called a halt to all mining operations because of WWII. They weren't reopened after that, except that in the 1980s, the lower shaft was mined for a few years.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We couldn't get into the mine because the main entrance had collapsed with the heavy snowfalls a few years ago. But, we wandered around looking at the old outbuildings and saw some interesting ore cart tracks, an explosives box, and how far back the tunnel had collapsed into the mountain. It was a lot of fun and will have to take Moritz over there when he arrives. Moritz (for those of you who don't know) is our new exchange student from Germany. He comes from a small town named Hermannsburg and he will arrive on July 8. Although we are sorry to see Bow and Jayong go, we are very excited to welcome Moritz into our home.<br />
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On July 4 we headed to Haines, OR to watch the rodeo. All of the horse camp kids went with my mom and Katlin, Dad, Daniel, David and I drove to Haines as well. Lisa and her kids opted to go to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City instead of sitting outside in the sun baking during the rodeo. David, Daniel, and Erin had never been to a rodeo, so I was excited for them to see it. Although it was not a very high quality rodeo (mainly amateurs not professional rodeo people), it was still fun to watch people try to ride bulls, ride bucking horses, run barrels, and rope steers. They also had a number of events that I had not seen before, including the wild cow race where two participants had to catch a wild cow on foot, hold them, saddle them, mount them, and ride them across the arena to the other side. I was amazed how fast people could do this! They also had the cowhide race where an adult had to ride down to the end of the arena and pick up a little kids, swing them up onto their saddle, ride to the opposite end, drop them off, grab a rope handed to them by the kid that had a cowhide attached to the end of it, and then they had to drag the cowhide with the kid laying on it to the other end of the arena. The kids ended up totally dirty and a number lost because the kids fell off the horse or didn't get pulled onto them correctly. They also had mutton busting for the really little kids where they put a rope around the center of a sheep, put a helmet on the kid and tell them to hang on as long as possible. The kids get dragged under the sheep, trampled, and run into the fence, but most hung on as long as possible. The reward for this torture? $1 for each kid who participates. Katlin participated in this a lot when she was a kid (maybe that's why her brain is so scrambled? Just kidding!). The rodeo also brought with it lots of interesting food. First there was the "tornado potato." They put a skewer through a potato and then spiral cut it about 2/3 of the way through so it ends up like a big long curly fry and then dump it in the deep frier without any breading. It was really good! The corn dogs were also fried with their own batter which had corn and some other pepper type things in the breading, but it was really good. The most unusual thing was the fried pop tarts. Now, I expect to find that thing in the South, but I didn't expect someone in Oregon to be the one who took Pop Tarts and dropped them in the deep frier. Daniel got a chocolate chip cookie dough one deep fried and it was really good!<br />
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After the rodeo we drove back to Halfway for the parade (which didn't amount to much) and then headed out to the fairgrounds to watch the fireworks. We got to listen to a guy sing and people danced to his music. All of the horse camp kids -- including Erin -- were up there having a blast. I finally got David up there with me for the very last song. The fireworks were great and fun to watch. All in all, it was a great 4th of July weekend! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin and other horse campers leaving on a ride</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-72332526532868665232012-07-04T10:08:00.001-07:002012-07-04T10:08:18.493-07:00Days 35-36 -- Seattle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Astoria from Astoria Column</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bow at Ft. Clatsop</td></tr>
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Days
35-36 (June 29 & 30) -- This morning we work up to rain. It was
the first time it has rained in the morning on this trip. It was gray
and overcast and sort of dreary. But, we showered quickly (all but
Erin) and then loaded up the car in the rain. We ate pancakes at the
free pancake breakfast and then headed to Astoria to look around. The
first place we stopped is the Astoria Column. It had over 400 steps to
climb, but at the top there was quite a nice view. By the time we got
to the top it had stopped raining, so we got a better view, although it
was still overcast. After that we went to Ft. Clatsop where Lewis and
Clark spent two years after arriving in Oregon. We had fun looking
around the old buildings and hearing about Lewis and Clark's time
there. We also got to sit on bear-skin and elk-skin rugs. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canoe at Ft. Clatsop</td></tr>
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After
walking around Ft. Clatsop for a time and getting our passports
stamped, we started to drive North. First we crossed the bridge from
Oregon to Washington over the Columbia River (which is 4 miles wide at
that point). We followed Hwy 101 up the Western edge of Washington and
then over to Olympia. It was very interesting seeing all of the trees
that grow there and how much logging there was there. One little town we
went through had tons of steel sculptures that depicted different
animals and people. I took pictures of a few of them, but could not get
them all. It made for a very interesting drive through town.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge from Astoria, OR to Washington<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge to Washington</td></tr>
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After
we got to Olympia, we hit traffic. I really don't enjoy city traffic.
It took a while to get through the traffic by the Lewis-McCord air
force base, but then it cleared out a bit. We headed straight to
Bellevue because it was getting close to dinner time. When we arrived we
got to meet Katelyn for the first time (David's cousin's daughter).
She is three and is very quiet and laid back for a three-year-old. We
went to Zeke's Pizza for dinner and got to spend our last night with
Bow. After dinner we went back to Stephanie's house and worked on
condensing all of Bow's stuff into three checked bags and one carry-on.
One of the funniest stories was that we had ordered some Amazon stuff
for Bow (her mom wanted some vitamins and an SAT book for her sister)
and had it shipped to Stephanie's house. David also ordered a new Mark
Schweizer book from the Liturgical Mystery Series - "The Treble Wore
Trouble." If anyone likes music, is an organist, likes old detective
stories, or likes the combination of music and mystery, these are great
books. They are about a guy who is the police chief in a small town in
North Carolina and is also the organist at an Episcopal Church.
Further, he fancies himself an amateur detective story writer (but he is
terrible!). There are always interesting little books. Anyhow,
Stephanie was so confused by all of these packages arriving at her
house. She works for Amazon and thought that someone was pranking her.
She told everyone at work about it and was so relieved when we told her
it was our stuff (I thought I had texted her that I was sending it, but
apparently it got lost in cyberspace).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steel Animals<br />
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The following morning we had to take Bow to
the airport to see her off. Everyone was so sad to see her go. But,
she made her flight okay and made it home okay. She is now back at
school preparing for the 11th grade.<br />
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After dropping Bow
off we headed to the Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch. This is one of
my favorite restaurants, and it did not disappoint. The bread alone was
wonderful. I has Chicken Marsala and I loved the sauce. After lunch
we went to downtown Seattle to see some sights. Unfortunately it was
late afternoon, so we didn't get to see a lot before it closed. We went
to Pike's Market and got some smoked salmon and then to a fruit stand
to get some fresh fruit. The fruit was a whole lot more expensive to
buy it from the fruit stand compared to buying it from the roadside
stands. It also wasn't quite as good as the fresh fruit, but it was
still tasty. We also went into a tea store and David got some Northwest
Blend black tea.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bow at the airport leaving for Thailand<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steel Animals<br />
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After seeing downtown we went over the the
Space Needle and got to see it. We didn't go up it because the line was
too long and we had to get back to Stephanie's for dinner. It would
have been nice to have an extra day in Seattle to go to the MP museum
and see some more things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Astoria Column</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sea Lions on Oregon Coast</td></tr>
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Today we drove along the Oregon Coast. We started the morning in Waldport, OR (between Florence and Newport) and then drove back south first thing in the morning to see the Sea Lion Caves. I don't think I'd ever been there, and I know David and the kids haven't been there. It is a natural sea cave where the sea lions come to sleep. Then right outside of the cave there is another big rock formation where even more sea lions lay out in the "sun." (It was actually fairly sunny that morning which is very unusual for the Oregon Coast.) It was an interesting experience and worth the money for the attraction, even though it was a bit "touristy." <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEi8WdQUHXJ9PN7Wwi4Q23MXUDmwfdUUs0kqOqOCLML2_p9gmSQaqIc9r9gxC0Ijer5yamUNAHfxvOp67NblTl8GaE10gCz4cubRboKr1eqhXd2AnAyYDJA6mODQWZKwhsiO0MfkAHT28N/s1600/IMG_6808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEi8WdQUHXJ9PN7Wwi4Q23MXUDmwfdUUs0kqOqOCLML2_p9gmSQaqIc9r9gxC0Ijer5yamUNAHfxvOp67NblTl8GaE10gCz4cubRboKr1eqhXd2AnAyYDJA6mODQWZKwhsiO0MfkAHT28N/s320/IMG_6808.JPG" width="320" /></a>After that we started north up the Oregon Coast toward our destination of Astoria (which is on the very northern tip of the Oregon coastline). As we drove in to Newport everyone said they were hungry, so we stopped as Mo's. Mo's is a coast tradition. I've been going there ever since I was a kid because they have the best clam chowder. Everyone got clam chowder and liked it (well, Daniel said that it was edible, but David loved it). David also got a seafood pasta that he said was wonderful and Bow and Erin got shrimp skewers and pasta. Daniel and I avoided the seafood and got chicken fettuccine (total wimp-out, I know). But, it was all good!<br />
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We also stopped by my dad's property along the beach (he inherited it from my grandparents). The trailer is still there but everything is so overgrown you can't even get to it (see photo). Also, when I was a kid there were stairs down to the beach and those have all washed away. I still have memories of going there as a kid and the motel next door is exactly the same. But, the rest of the ares is different because there are houses to the south of it that were never there before. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqwlHqJNCChcb7rAkqh71C7Jn8uNxvaWBDLK4DcJzcQtIsVfmSk8pXNrPPRbqOoi4O1DCZyVTQn9KSw3lDehFoBj8lZLKdg6655RmYbcyAEjtTHCzwNPnNWKMmTHe3jl1Jhf0D-_Mz92-W/s1600/IMG_6773.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqwlHqJNCChcb7rAkqh71C7Jn8uNxvaWBDLK4DcJzcQtIsVfmSk8pXNrPPRbqOoi4O1DCZyVTQn9KSw3lDehFoBj8lZLKdg6655RmYbcyAEjtTHCzwNPnNWKMmTHe3jl1Jhf0D-_Mz92-W/s320/IMG_6773.JPG" width="320" /></a>One of the highlights of the day for me was the stop at the Tillamook Cheese factory. We got to sample a variety of cheeses and bought Tillamook Ice Cream. Yum yum! <br />
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Late in the day we got close to Astoria and we were very proud of ourselves that we might get to the KOA before it closed. But, then I had the bright idea to go watch the new Disney movie "Brave" at the Seaside theater (which is the scariest looking movie theater I've ever seen -- it looked like an abandoned factory). Bow really wanted to see it before she left for Thailand and our kids wanted to see it as well. So, we ate some popcorn for dinner at the theater and watched it.<br />
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The interesting thing is that the KOA office was still open when we got there, even though it was after 10 pm. They were open until 11 pm! This KOA was really big (David kept joking that it was as big as Piedmont), but overall it was pretty nice. The cabin smelled a bit musty, but that is to be expected at the coast, but David was unimpressed that when he moved the queen bed away from the wall a bit it looked like no one had ever swept over there. It rained all night, so I'm very glad we had a cabin!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water shooting through</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water coming up a hole in the rock</td></tr>
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-80582595819802650622012-06-30T22:44:00.002-07:002012-06-30T22:44:23.032-07:00Days 32 & 33 -- Oregon Caves & Grants Pass<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">California Redwood</td></tr>
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Days
32 & 33 (June 26-27) -- The goal for today was to drive to Klamath
Falls and get back onto our route over to Crater Lake and then back to
the Oregon Coast. We started out going through more redwoods (David's
famous words are "last chance to see redwoods" and then we'd see more).
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cave formations</td></tr>
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One
of the things we saw that was along our detour was the Oregon Caves. I
had never been to Oregon Caves and Bow had never been in a cave at all,
so we decided to detour that way. It looked like a short detour on the
map, but it was quite the winding road, so it took longer than we
thought. By the time we got up there the next available tour time was
5:15 (tickets were first-come first-served). We hung out in the gift
shop playing a memory game with all of the national parks on the cards
(Bow won) until our time came up. Then we went into the cave. It was a
unique cave because it was a marble cave (the whole cave was made out
of marble) which is very unique in the world of caves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smith River in Oregon -- super clear<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interesting rocks along Smith River<br />
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By the time we finished we knew
there was no way we'd make it to Klamath Falls and no way we'd make it
to Crater Lake the next day. So, we stayed in Grants Pass, OR at a
Shilo Inn and slept in the next day until 12 pm. David and I were so
tired that we just passed out. But, it felt really good to get caught
up on our sleep. After we checked out of the motel at 1 pm we found a
local restaurant for lunch called the Circle J. It was a very eclectic
restaurant and we had fun there. The owner came out while we were
finishing our food and talked to us for a bit. She asked where we were
from and David said Alabama. Then she asked him a bunch of things about
the South, like -- Do you always have red velvet cake and coconut cake
there? He said, "yes" and that made her laugh. She and I conversed a
bit about Southern culture and Western culture and she made me feel a
bit better because she reaffirmed that Westerners ARE different in the
way we say things (much more straightforward and honest, rather than
roundabout and subtle). It was nice for me to be around people who are
much more like me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset over a marsh outside Eugene, OR<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heidi standing along Smith River<br />
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After lunch we made our requisite Walmart
run. Erin needed a new duffle bag because hers bit the dust (it fell
apart and I duct-taped it together several times before it became
unsalvageable). Bow also needed another suitcase because she had bought
so many souvenirs and her suitcases were already overweight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moon over Florence Beach in OR<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twilight near Florence, OR beach<br />
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that we drove up I-5 to Eugene, looked around at the University of
Oregon a bit, ate dinner at a KFC and then drove to the Oregon Coast.
We got there after sunset when it was still twilight and we got a couple
of pictures of the Ocean before the sun went down. We drove to our KOA
in Waldport, OR and, as usual, were the last people to check in. I'm
used to the lone envelope pinned to the night registration board with
"Dempsey" printed on it. We unpacked, brushed teeth, and then headed to
bed by 11:15 or so. <br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-27063549431656409752012-06-29T17:13:00.000-07:002012-06-29T17:18:05.062-07:00Day 31 - California Redwoods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 31 -- Well, according to our map, we are supposed to be headed inland in California to go to Lassen Volcanic Park. However, Daniel and David were so taken with the giant sequoias they wanted to compare them to the California Coast Redwoods. So, we modified our trip to drive up the coast from San Francisco on Hwy 101 and see the giant redwoods in Humboldt State Park (following the Avenue of the Giants) and the Redwoods State and National Park.<br />
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After we headed out of San Francisco, we stopped briefly across the Golden Gate Bridge to take photos of the bridge and city and then we headed up through wine country to the coast. The redwoods were very pretty, but not as impressive as the Giant Sequoias. I guess it is because they are taller, but do not have as massive of girth. Thus, it is harder to tell how much taller they are than the surrounding trees. But, you can definitely tell that they are bigger than those around them (and have bigger girths than surrounding trees). We took several of the trails around the tree groves and saw the largest redwood (which had fallen several years earlier). <br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-35903288897268255322012-06-27T18:02:00.002-07:002012-06-29T16:57:39.422-07:00Days 28 to 30 - San Francisco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Days 28 to 30 (June 22 to 24) - As we came down from Yosemite, guess what David wanted to do.....yep, you guessed it....get more fruit. This time we found one fruit stand and bought cherries, apricots, blackberries, blueberries, and peaches. David is so excited about the fruit out here.<br />
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Our other memorable accomplishment -- we passed 5,000 miles of driving while in San Francisco. Thus, we should be about half way through our trip in terms of mileage. Its well over 100 hours of time in the car, so that is a whole lot. We kept teasing Jaeyong that he was leaving our of San Francisco and flying about 5300 miles to get home to Seoul and it would only take him about 12 hours of flying and it had taken us over 100 hours to get that far in the car.<br />
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Before we left Yosemite, we sat in the Happy Burger diner for about 2 hours while we had internet to fix a mistake of mine. So far everything has worked as far as timing hotels, but I finally had a major screw-up. I was a bit surprised when I got an email from Colter Bay Tent Camps in Jackson Hole, WY telling me what they had available for my upcoming visit. Yes, I was planning to be there, but not until July 13 (and this was like June 5). Then one June 15 I got an email thanking me for my recent stay at Colter Bay. That's when I knew I was in trouble. I checked the reservation and, yes, I did make it for the wrong month. So, I went to make new reservations in July and they are sold out. In fact, most of Jackson Hole is sold out. So, we are going to have to cram into an overcrowded Super 8 in Jackson and one unlucky kid is going to have to sleep on the floor unless we can get a roll-away bed. But, at least we have something, which is good because we have a sunrise float trip on the Snake River scheduled for the following morning.<br />
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Once we got on the road, the trip to San Francisco was uneventful. My mom's best friend was allowing us to stay at her house, we we were happy to have a place to crash. She even fed us dinner, let us do laundry, and bought us food for lunches. It was great! She was a blast to spend time with and hear about her kids (which I remember from childhood).<br />
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On June 23 we had tickets to Alcatraz so we headed to downtown San Francisco to catch the ferry on Pier 33. We were unlucky with traffic (Candlestick Park was backed up for miles), but finally made it downtown. Once we bought some souvenirs it was time to get lunch (we ate wonderful sandwiches that Renee had bought all the fixings for). The trip to Alcatraz took only a few minutes on the ferry and then we had a great tour of Alcatraz. It was interesting to hear the stories from there and see the park rangers demonstrate how the cell door operated mechanically.<br />
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David's and my favorite things were the rules from the Alcatraz handbook which they had printed up on magnets (which, of course we had to buy). Rule 5 - <span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS,'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">You are entitled to food, clothing, shelter and medical attention. Anything else that you get is a privilege. </span> Rule 30 - Loud talk, shouting, whistling, singing, or other unnecessary noises are not permitted. Rule 23 - Any groundless complaints for the purposes of creating dissatisfaction and/or stirring up trouble...will be subject to disciplinary action. Thus, our favorite new sayings are to say things like, "Daniel -- Rule 30." Erin also got a new passport book to replace the one she lost on the trail.<br />
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The kids have also created interesting nicknames for each other on this trip. Bow acquired the name Raven by Jaeyong. Then she turned around and called him Mockingbird. Then we had to come up with names for Daniel and Erin. Daniel is either Turkey Vulture or Woodpecker (my favorite one). Erin is flamingo (obviously for her spindly legs). <br />
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After we got back from Alcatraz, we wanted to take a city tour so Jaeyong could see some of San Francisco before he left the following day. So, we did the red double-decker open-air bus tour. First we did the downtown day tour and then right after that we did the night tour. It gave us a decent overview of the city, but the first tour guide seemed to be more interested in people watching then telling us about the buildings, regions, and history of the town. The second tour guide was much better. One interesting event that was going on that weekend was the gay pride parade. They were having a bunch of events leading up to it on Saturday and then Sunday was the actual parade. They were expecting something like a million people to come to it. We, we decided to avoid downtown the next day because we knew that traffic and tours would be a mess downtown and it would be crazy to try to get around. We finally stopped for dinner around 9 pm. We went to a place recommended by our tour driver called Tommy's Joynt. It was really good food and every inexpensive. They just have and food line like a cafeteria and you tell them what food you want and they throw it on your plate almost before you finish the sentence. David got corned beef and cabbage (which he hadn't had since the Palya's served it at their house and he LOVED it). Daniel got sweet-and-sour ribs and the rest of us got buffalo stew over rice which was wonderful. Also, we got a sourdough roll (a SF standard). Such good food!<br />
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So, the next day we got up moderately early and helped Jaeyong get packed. He go everything put into suitcases and then we took him to the airport. Of course his bags were overweight (because he had stuffed so much into them), but the lady was really nice and told him if he took a few things out, like a book and sweatshirt, it would be enough. He did that and placed it in an extra bag he had and she was nice enough to say that it was fine, even though it was still overweight. Korean Air is much nicer about things than Delta! We watched Jaeyong go through security (all of the ay through the long line) and kept waving to him every time he came into view. I think Bow will miss him the most because she was closest to him. Daniel and Erin still have Bow and each other to pick on. But, Bow will probably be okay when she gets home to her friends and family. We got a facebook message the next day letting us know that he was home, so we know he arrived safely.<br />
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After he left we headed back downtown, but this time to Golden Gate Park. We ate lunch right outside the park in a little Vietnamese restaurant called Green Bamboo. No one else had eaten Vietnamese before (other than me), so it was a new experience for them). It is similar to Chinese and Thai, but a bit different. David and Daniel got the 5 spice chicken which had interesting seasonings (ginger, anise, clove, etc.) and I got the curry chicken (which was really spicy because it had jalapeno peppers in it), and Erin and Bow got a pork soup with noodles. Erin ate all sorts of things in that soup that we didn't know she ate (onions, tofu, etc.). It was fun to watch, but she took forever to try to get the noodle out with chopsticks (Bow, of course, was an expert at it).<br />
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After lunch we tried to find parking (nearly impossible) and finally got a space. Then we rented one of those 4-seat surries which you pedal and drove it around the park with Daniel steering and being in charge of the brake (that part was a bit scary!). After an hour and a half of that (only having one gear and having to drive uphill from the beach) we headed back to Renee's house for some dinner and laundry.<br />
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Overall San Francisco was fun, but I still prefer natural areas and small towns to cities. However, it was absolutely the best weather I've ever seen in San Francisco -- sunny, warm, and clear! <br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0San Carlos, CA, USA37.5071591 -122.260522237.4819666 -122.3000042 37.532351600000005 -122.22104019999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-58527881261308123922012-06-24T22:39:00.000-07:002012-06-27T18:04:26.766-07:00Days 25-26 Yosemite<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7puqFuxT0l4olOZhpmaae9V0eJhjSE39Un0AhombL0-dswaY06NjRn8fl3bHolboSQOtnrOwED0XZoyYUYXhk2hAOGr3fpii-cfx2HqnXd2CIHK8-U-x0oSMJt3kIs56o5D0D_F_x-ZqM/s1600/IMG_5317.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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Days 25-26 (June 19-20) After visiting Sequoia and Kings Canyon, I don't think David had very high expectations for Yosemite, especially since he knew that more people went there (Sequoia was relatively uncrowded for a national park during peak tourist season). He loved the tall trees and didn't think there was much in the way of natural beauty which could top it. That's what he thought until we reached Yosemite, anyway. <br />
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The two parks aren't that far from one another, but you have to go down the mountain from Sequoia (elevations ranging from 6,000 ft to over 14,000 ft -- Mt. Whitney is located there and it's the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states) cross a bit more of the San Joachim Valley though Fresno (elevation 296 ft) back up to Yosemite Valley (elevation 4,000 ft). David wasn't too upset though because (a) the road we were coming down on wasn't quite as curvy as the one going up and (b) going back to the valley meant the opportunity to get more fruit. <br />
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Once we reached the valley floor we stopped at the first fruit sand we saw and then the second. We got more apricots, nectarines, pluots (a hybrid of apricots and plums), plums, and boysenberries. The boysenberries were wonderful! Boysenberries were brought to the front by Mr. Knott (of Knott's Berry Farm fame). They are a combination of blackberries, raspberries, and loganberries (themselves a combination of blackberries and raspberries). The kids loved them! Daniel really took to the plums and I loved the pluots and nectarines. David and Erin just loved all of them!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin at lower bridge (Vernal Falls behind)</td></tr>
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We stopped at TGI Friday's in Fresno for lunch because Jaeyong wanted ribs for his birthday. So, he got a half rack of ribs and a steak for his birthday. After that we headed up to our campsite at the good old KOA. Our KOA at Yosemite was actually in Midpines which was about an hour outside the park (only 24 miles away, but difficult to drive fast because of all of the curves and elevation changes). So, the first day we managed to get to Yosemite (June 19) and do laundry. We wanted to do laundry in LA, but the washers were all broken at our hotel. So, we kept everything until Yosemite. We took all 8 washers at the KOA to wash our clothes and I overfilled them so they weren't really that clean after washing them (a few items weren't even thoroughly wet). Anyhow, they at least gave us some things to start with.<br />
That's all we managed to accomplish that night. After washing clothes (the kids swam while I washed) it was like 9 pm and we hadn't eaten dinner. So we drove back to Mariposa (about 6 miles away) and grabbed some burgers at Burger King to go with our fruit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View partway up Mist Trail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stairs on upper Mist Trail</td></tr>
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The next morning we headed up to Yosemite. It took a while to get up there and get oriented to the park, but eventually we figured out what was what. We ate pizza at Curry Village and then decided to hike one of the trails. I got a new belt before we headed up to hike and it was wonderful. It's made from the same nylon straps they use for rock climbing. I can hang my water bottle off of it and it doesn't stretch at all.<br />
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We decided to go up the Mist Trail because I had read about it online
before we got into the park. It takes 1 mile of the John Muir trail
and then goes off on its own to hike up to Vernal Falls and then Nevada
Falls. It is called the Mist Trail because it climbs right next to the
waterfalls and you get mist off the falls as you climb. The John Muir trail section was a pretty steep incline, but was
paved. After the 1 mile section you get to a bridge with a water
filling station and rest room. The water filling was a godsend because I
needed water desperately by the time I reached that point. That is the
first time you can see the lower falls. We weren't sure about hiking
up there because we would climb another 800 feet elevation in 3/4 mile
(we had already climbed 1000 ft. in 1 mile), but we decided to go for
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from top of Vernal Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids at top of Vernal Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Water ride" portion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lower half of "Water Ride"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View along Mist Trail</td></tr>
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The traffic thinned out considerably after the bridge because a lot of people give up at that point. David's hip was hurting and my back was hurting, but we took some Advil and kept on. After about 1/4 mile the trail turns into stairs. The stairs last about 1/2 mile and you just climb. At first they are sandy, then they are wet and rocky as you get close to the base of the falls and pass it on the side. Then they get sandy again about half way up the falls. Then you have to walk on a little rock ledge with a fence by the time you get close to the top of the falls. Then you stand right next to the top of the falls and look down on everyone else climbing up. Further upstream is a beautiful pool of water that is emerald green called, not surprisingly, Emerald Pools. Then there is a section where the water runs down a rock like a giant water ride at an amusement park. Since that was so pretty we had to keep walking up a bit more. We came to the upper bridge where you could see the upper falls and we decided to stop at that point because we were afraid we were going to run out of light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long view of "The water ride"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Upper bridge</td></tr>
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By the time we got down it was late and we were afraid we weren't going to get to eat. We managed to get to a buffet at Curry Village before it closed and got some good food. We watched a bit of a program there as I reminisced about staying in Yosemite as a kid. <br />
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We made it home really late that night and stayed in bed late the next morning. By the time we made it up to Yosemite the next day we didn't have a lot of time before things closed. We hiked up to Lower Yosemite Falls, around the meadows, and then ate dinner in another food court by the Lodge. Then we watched a program all about the Falls and learned about neat things that happen like frazil ice (makes the creek a bit like a slushie machine in mid-March or April). It wasn't all I had hoped for on the second day, but that is one of the disadvantages of staying so far outside of the park (and being so out of shape when it comes to hiking). David and I hope to come back sometime and stay in the park so we can do more things and not have to worry about the drive out of the park at night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow on Mist Trail coming down</td></tr>
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The only downside of the whole adventure was that Erin lost her national parks passport on the Mist Trail. So, unless someone turns it in, she will not have all of those stamps from our previous destinations. We will buy her a new one the next park we reach, but it's small consolation for having lost the earlier keepsakes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View coming down Mist Trail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yosemite Falls</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com1Yosemite National Park, Northside Dr, Yosemite National Park, CA 95389, USA37.7705963 -119.510770837.3689588 -120.1424848 38.1722338 -118.8790568tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-56363943297238575612012-06-24T09:42:00.003-07:002012-06-24T21:15:22.408-07:00Days 23 to 24 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Days
23-24 (June 17-18): For the past two days we've been at Sequoia and
Kings Canyon. We have really enjoyed these parks. First, to get up
here was a great adventure. The road was extremely curvy (lots of
U-turn type road signs with 10 mph posted as the speeds) and then there
is a whole section of the road which they are working on where it is one
lane. We had stopped to get some fresh fruit (David's first taste of
fresh RIPE apricots) so we had something to munch on while we were
waiting in line for our turn through the one-way traffic. I understand
now why they don't recommend RVs and campers to drive up that section.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The windy road leading up to Sequoia National Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing at the base looking up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture of the valley taken while driving through the park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin next to a trunk of a giant sequoia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel next to the trunk of a giant sequoia</td></tr>
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Once we got to the Giant Forest grove of Sequoias it was hard not to try
to snap photos of every tree we passed. These trees are just
magnificent! They are so tall and big around! We also learned all
sorts of facts about them. For example, they aren't the tallest tress
(the California Coast Redwoods are taller), but they do have the largest
girths and masses of any tree. For this reason the General Sherman
tree is considered the largest tree in the world. it is a really big
tree!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin and Daniel walking through a fallen log</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old graffiti on a stump (note 1885 date)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erin crawling through a hole in the trunk of a giant sequoia</td></tr>
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I think the kids had a really good time, especially when we found trees
that they could climb around in, over, under, through, etc. They
especially liked the stump trail because they could climb up on the big
stumps. We did a lot of easy hiking in sequoia -- wandering through groves of giant sequoias. <br />
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Eating was a bit challenging because we were a long ways from everything
except the general store at our campsite. The first night we pulled in
15 minutes before the general store closed and were able to grab some
hot pulled pork sandwiches before they closed. We had our fresh fruit
(oranges, cherries, and apricots) to eat with that, so it made it a good
meal. The next day we had poptarts for breakfast (our standard
breakfast when we don't have somewhere else to eat) and some more
fruit. We had to store everything in a bear box because there is the
risk that the bears will come and tear up your car or campsite to get to
anything they think is food (that is, anything with a scent).
Apparently the bears are strong enough they can open your car like a can
of sardines and rip through any seats or anything keeping them away
from your food. So everything with a scent has to go into the bear box
at all times. For lunch on the second day we managed to find a
restaurant at the next campsite and they agreed to serve us lunch, even
though it was 2:35 and 5 minutes after their lunch hour (this was after
we'd hiked about 3 miles and were starving). For dinner we had gotten
back late because we had driven over to Kings Canyon and gone through
the General Grant Grove of Sequoias and then hiked through the stumps of
the giant sequoias where they had logged them at the turn of the
century (before they realized they should conserve them). So, once
again we were able to get to the general store at our campsite about 5
minutes before they closed and grabbed some lunchables and cold
sandwiches for the night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel standing in a tunnel cut through a fallen sequoia</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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One of the interesting tidbits I read on
one of the signs
was they cut down one of the giant sequoias for the world's fair in 1896
and shipped it back east where they reassembled it. They apparently
didn't believe that trees actually grew that big in California and
called it a hoax.<br />
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All in all, this has been one of my
favorite places we've been. I could do without the camping (sleeping on
the floor with the sunlight coming in at 5:30 am), but otherwise, I
love it here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids standing on a stump</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mark Twain Stump -- I couldn't even get all of it in the picture!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-19802514916289185042012-06-18T17:58:00.003-07:002012-06-18T18:00:44.433-07:00Days 18 to 22 - Los Angeles Metro AreaDays 18 to 22 - Los Angeles (June 12 to 17)<br />
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It took
forever for us to get out of Las Vegas. After we packed up the car, we
headed to Fazoli's for lunch. Fazoli's is our favorite fast food
Italian restaurant from Kentucky, but we didn't know there were any more
in the country. So, we were very excited when we found out there were
more of them! Then we headed to Walmart to try to replace essentials
(for Daniel he "required" 5 boxes of Little Debbie cakes -- so I finally
gave in and bought two). We got more shampoo, soap, new sunglasses for
David (his broke), and a new water bottle for me (mine leaked). After
that we tried to go to Radio Shack to return the second extra camera
battery that I had lost after I bought the first replacement battery
(see the saga of the camera batteries in past posts). However, the
first Radio Shack didn't have active internet, so they couldn't do
returns. Then we had to drive 4 more miles to find a second Radio Shack
which was essential back where we started (we drove in a loop). By
then I had to go to the bathroom because it had been several hours and
so we stopped at a Krispie Kreme Doughnut Store and bought a dozen
doughnuts.<br />
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Then we finally got on the road to LA and
had to drive across the Mojave Desert. It was 107 degrees in the
desert, but dropped down to about 75 by the time we got to Los Angeles.
We stopped for dinner at a Wienerschnitzel which we thought might be a
German fast food restaurant, but it turns out it was a hot dog
restaurant. Slightly disappointing, but it was okay food. We stayed at
Radisson Inn in Beuna Park, CA, which is about a block from Knott's
Berry Farm amusement park. When I was a kid Knott's Berry Farm was
still owned by the Knott's family and wasn't quite as big of park as it
is now. My favorite ride of childhood was the log ride and I was
looking forward to riding it again.<br />
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first day in LA we drove over to Hollywood and saw the Hollywood sign,
Walk of Fame (with the stars -- I saw Bob Newhart's star), and the
Griffith Observatory. Then we drove to Thai Town and ate lunch at a
Thai restaurant called Thai Patio. It was good food! Then we drove
through Koreatown and went to the LaBrea tar pits on Wilshire Blvd. The
tar pits smell bad! It was fun to see what they were excavating and
what they had found so far. They found a bunch of fossils near the tar
pits when they were excavating for a near parking garage.<br />
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we drove over to Venice Beach and played in the sand. After collecting
sea shells and playing in the cold water (big shock to the kids that the
water wasn't warm) we tried to play beach volleyball. They had nets
set up there which was great because we had a volleyball with us. The
problem was that the elevation had changed so much over the course of
the trip that the ball was flat. It was plenty full when we were at
7000 feet, but by sea level it was very soft and squishy. So, we tried
to play for a bit, but it hurt our arms to hit the ball. Then we
stopped to get gelato and look at a specialty jerky store. We bought a
variety pack of exotic jerky (alligator, buffalo, wild boar, kangaroo,
and venison jerky) along with some regular beef and turkey jerky. We
thought we'd try a different pack each day we are in the car.<br />
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second day in LA we headed to Knott's Berry Farm This was an
interesting day for Jaeyong because he hadn't been to a theme park since
he'd had his heart surgery to correct his arythmia. He seemed to do
okay, but I think it was a little overwhelming for him. Bow and Daniel
were gung-ho and wanted to do everything over and over. Knott's Berry
Farm is more of a typical amusement park now (like a 6 Flags), but they
still had the Timberline Log Ride I remembered from childhood. I rode
on it three times and was excited every time. The kids liked the faster
roller coasters more (the Silver Bullet was their favorite). David
likes the one where it takes you way up in the air (like 300+ feet) and
drops you. I had been on the Tower of Terror at Disney which is
similar, but it isn't outside, so you can't see how much you are
dropping. I must say that it is really scary to be hauled up that high
and then dropped. After the first second when your body adjusts to the
free-fall, it is fine. I think it did it twice, but David and the other
kids (minus Jaeyong) did it around 4 times. We had a Fast Pass which
let us cut to the front of the line on any of the major rides, so that
allowed us to do a lot more in the park than other people. It wasn't
real warm (around 73 degrees), so the skinny kids were slightly chilly
after doing some of the water rides, but it wasn't too bad.<br />
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After
Knott's Berry Farm closed at 8, we headed back to the hotel to change
into warmer/dryer clothes and then went to eat at a Korean BBQ
restaurant that was close to our hotel. It was one of those places
where you order a full meal for the table to share and then cook the
meats at the table. Jaeyong had to order for us because everything was
in Korean and he was having a hard time trying to do all of that because
his parents had always taken care of that in the past. But, it was
good experience for him. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What the heck?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Ferris Wheel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gangsta? Sorta???</td></tr>
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The
next day we headed to Disneyland's California Adventure which has some
of the same rides as Epcot. When we arrived we thought that it was when
the park was opening for the day, but apparently it had opened an hour
earlier because it was it's grand reopening (after being closed for 1
day) to introduce a new section of the park called "Carsland" which was
based on the movie "Cars." They had a new speedway racetrack similar to
Epcot's Test Track, but we never got the chance to ride on it because
by the time we found that section, the wait time for a ride was 6
hours! We weren't going to wait that long for any ride! The other ride
in that section that looked neat was like a hover bumper cars, but the
line for it was around 2 hours any time we checked. So, we just looked
around and went to other sections. The Paradise Pier roller coaster
called California Screamin' was a whole lot of fun and had all of the
elements of a great roller coaster. The best part was that it was built
to look like a wooden roller coaster, but it is all steel. So it
doesn't do the "clackety-clackety" of a wooden roller coaster. It has
one loop and some of the fun up-down sections and some tight turns. The
Ferris wheel was also fun because the cars on it rolled and weren't
stationary. So, as the wheel turned your car rolled back and forth on a
loop. That made it a lot of fun. We also did Tower of Terror twice
and even Jaeyong did that with us. It was great fun! The one thing I
really like about Disney is that the rides all have storylines.<br />
<br />
It
was much cooler the day we went to Disney -- about 65 degrees and
cloudy. So, we decided to skip the water ride (Grizzly River Rapids)
and wear long pants and take polar fleeces (except Daniel who always
says he's "fine" no matter how mismatched his clothing is for the
weather -- he wore a long sleeve shirt and jeans in Vegas when it was
110 degrees and shorts and a t-shirt to play cards at night when it was
45 degrees at the Grand Canyon). One thing that California Adventure
boasted was a really nice water show. We wanted to have good seats for
it, so we bought a lunch at a nice restaurant which included a pass to
have center stage seating (really standing) for the 9 pm show. When we
got there we go ushered to the very center section with the best viewing
points for the show (which we should for the price we paid for lunch).
The show was awesome! I'll try to upload some of the video to YouTube
and put it on here (when I have better internet). I was surprised at
how they were able to project video onto a wall of water and then show
colors all over the top of it. It was called "The World of Color" and
it was a great show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ferris Wheel with World of Color Water in Front</td></tr>
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We stayed until they closed and then bought
some souvenirs on the way out. David and I both got t-shirts that had
the date of the reopening on it. We got Katlin a surprise as well!<br />
<br />
The
day after Disney we were beat. We decided to take a day of rest and
just sleep in as long as possible (noon for us and the girls -- the boys
on the pull-out couch could only sleep until 9 am). Then we went to
Ihop for brunch and then the kids went swimming at the pool for several
hours and I caught up on coursework and the blog. After lounging around
for a while and watching "Mall Cop" on the TV (because it was on) we
headed to McDonald's for dinner. They had model trains running all
throughout the McDonalds, so it was more interesting than most. Then we
walked back to the hotel and played cards for a couple of hours. We
bought Skip-Bo at the last Walmart because Jaeyong wanted to play a game
where he got to Skip Bow on a regular basis (I think he was
disappointed by the actual game). Erin won the first game we played.
We then switched to poker because Daniel had taught Jaeyong to play, but
neither of the girls had played before. So we played a few rounds of
it before everyone got tired. Then we tried to go to sleep but the
people next to us were noisy (kids screaming and running around until 4
am). David was just mad all night and alternated between beating on the
wall and calling the front desk to complain. It was a long night!<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-43300501027142456692012-06-16T21:58:00.001-07:002012-06-16T21:58:15.100-07:00Day 17 - Las Vegas<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite sign from Grand Canyon -- above the toilet at the Bright Angel Lodge it says "Caution Reclaimed Wastewater DO NOT DRINK" Does anyone regularly drink toilet water????</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Day 17 (June 11) - So we got up early, took showers, and did laundry this morning. Erin and Bow stayed down with the laundry while it was going and the rest of us went back to the tent to try to break down camp. The girls had taken their breakfast pastries with them to eat while doing laundry, but everyone else left theirs on the table at the campsite to try and heat them up a bit (by the sun). When we got back from the laundry room to eat our breakfast Daniel couldn't find his pastry. We looked around and we checked the receipt to see if we had actually purchased it. Daniel had resorted to eating a Poptart before Bow found his pastry under the table where a squirrel had opened it and eaten part of it. We convinced him to tear off the squirrel-eaten section and then eat the rest of it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elk in our Campsite</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_qsxboqUKuS9OxhCEwpSkC3iWxcrWoz7B6bcBXWsbW-g0qK52kzuo87O1wyW1I1PvxJcckTJd_0WiqWYaj6vs4GwvWsAYb0s2Q5rS0rJ_4s5MLcwKLsUxb3AxWpp8QjjOqGKPvbTfHIWC/s1600/IMG_4054.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_qsxboqUKuS9OxhCEwpSkC3iWxcrWoz7B6bcBXWsbW-g0qK52kzuo87O1wyW1I1PvxJcckTJd_0WiqWYaj6vs4GwvWsAYb0s2Q5rS0rJ_4s5MLcwKLsUxb3AxWpp8QjjOqGKPvbTfHIWC/s200/IMG_4054.JPG" width="200" /></a>While we were breaking down camp one of the neighbors came up and asked if we had seen the big moose wandering through campsite. When we saw it we realized it was a large elk, not a moose, but it was still huge and hanging out in the camp. We followed it a bit and took pictures and then went back to breaking down camp.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Bridge over Hoover Dam</td></tr>
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Then we got on the road to Las Vegas. One interesting place we stopped on the road was the Hoover Dam. I had been over it several times, but never stopped. We only got to stop briefly because we were late and had to get to Vegas to see David Copperfield.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Mead side of Hoover Dam</td></tr>
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Our hotel was awesome! We had two separate rooms and separate bathrooms. We had a shower with 5 nozzles and it was great! We stayed at the Desert Rose Resort, which is a non-gaming condo complex next to the Hooters Hotel and the MGM Grand. We barely had time to set everything down before we had to head over to the MGM Grand to see our David Copperfield performance. It was a great show. He involved many members of the audience and did one trick right next to our table. I don't know how he does any of his tricks, but at one point he made a car appear and at the end of the show he made about 12 audience members disappear. He also did something neat with sending us an email before he did the trick which showed the answer to the trick (a series of "random" occurrences). That was neat!<br />
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Then we ate dinner at the Rainforest Cafe which had good food,
but it was very cold in the restaurant. Then we walked the strip a bit
and tried to avoid people begging for money, smokers, and people trying
to sell us prostitutes on every corner. So, I don't think that Las Vegas itself was that interesting. We were just tired and overwhelmed by how noisy and smelly everything was. Katlin recommended the New York, New York roller coaster, but it was $14 per person and it didn't seem like it was worth it if we were headed to the California theme parks the next day.<br />
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<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com1Las Vegas, NV, USA36.114646 -115.17281635.909413 -115.48867299999999 36.319879 -114.856959tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-4609777224448654612012-06-16T19:48:00.001-07:002012-06-16T20:06:01.069-07:00Day 16 - Viewing the Grand Canyon<br />
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Day 16 (June 10) -- Today we viewed the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. As I alluded to in my last post, the South Rim is much prettier than the North Rim. Although there are more people there, it is unparallel in beauty. It was fun to hear some of the people on the bus next to us talk about doing the same type of route we were (they had just been in Zion and were heading to Vegas next). There are also a lot of people from other countries that we've run into. We expected to see a lot of Japanese tourists, but I think we actually have run into more Germans than any other nationality. We've been totally surprised how often we hear German compared to French, English (from England), or Asian languages. So, I guess this is a popular holiday time for people from German-speaking countries.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hiking along the South Rim</td></tr>
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After a nutritious breakfast of Poptarts from the car, we headed out
to find out how to see the canyon. We went to the visitor's center and
saw that catching a bus to all of the scenic viewpoints was our best
option (other option was to rent and ride a bicycle). So, we rode the
bus all the way to the end and ate lunch at Herman's Rest which had a
snack bar at the end of the trail. We ate premade sandwiches which were
exactly like the premade sandwiches we ate from a gas station the
previous night on our way from the North Rim to the South Rim. Not
extremely tasty, but good. We also got some beef jerky to share (except
for Bow who doesn't eat beef).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo right on the edge of the Grand Canyon</td></tr>
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Then we rode the bus partway back, then got off and hiked partway back
(about 2 miles). Then we got on the bus again and rode down another
stretch and then walked back to another viewpoint. By the time we
finished I was hungry and wanted something to eat. So, we walked around
the rim lodges a bit and then stopped at the Bright Angel Restaurant in
Bright Angel Lodge. The soup was really good, but the food was just
okay. Then we got some ice cream and went to another viewpoint to watch
the sunset. David got to see some California Condor's flying over the Grand Canyon (he was fascinated with them as a kid) and they were almost extinct, so it was neat to see them. <br />
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After that we stopped by the market that was in the park and picked out some sweets for breakfast (honey buns, muffins, berry pastries, etc.). Then we went back to camp and finally finished our Phase 10 game (the one we started in Albuquerque). It came down to the very last round and anyone could have won, but Bow was the one who went out first.<br />
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</tbody></table>Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697221600529436504.post-32317073520379168612012-06-16T19:16:00.001-07:002012-06-16T19:16:54.335-07:00Day 15 -- Grand Canyon (North and South Rims)Day 15 (June 9) -- We awoke early again today because our neighbors were talking rapid fire, full volume -- f-this and f-that. What a glorious sound to wake up to! After getting up we took down the tent with only minor hassles. The main problem was that we got one of the tent stakes stuck deep in the ground and it wouldn't come up. I had the bright idea to add water to the dirt to loosen it up. That basically turned it into cement and it wouldn't come up until I added a bunch of water and wiggled it a whole lot. By the time I finished getting the tent stake out David had the whole car and fanny pack packed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandstone formation in Zion we climbed</td></tr>
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After we got the car packed, we started to head out of the park for our drive to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Daniel kept seeing interesting sandstone formations on the side of the road and he kept mentioning that it would be fun to climb up one. So, we found one that didn't seem too steep and stopped on the side of the road and got out and climbed up. Daniel went up the highest (he's a bit like a mountain goat on rocks), and the rest of the kids followed him partway up. David and I stopped mid-mountain and took pictures of the kids. Here are some of the photos from this adventure: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bow and Jaeyong part way up Sandstone Formation in Zion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bow, Jaeyong, and Erin on Sandstone Formation in Zion</td></tr>
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After climbing, we headed toward the Grand Canyon in Arizona. As we
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After we started traveling through Arizona, David suggested that we detour to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was about an hour and a half out of our way, but when else where we going to be in this side of the country? So, we saw the Grand Canyon from the North Rim. This is the only part of the Grand Canyon that I've been to before. Although the view is nice, I've always thought the Grand Canyon is not as impressive as everyone has made it out to be. But, as you will see in the next post, that's only because I hadn't seen the South Rim before.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from North Rim of Grand Canyon</td></tr>
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After we left the North Rim, we went through miles and miles of flat desert. This is a view of what it looked like once we crossed over onto the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona (that straight line on the bottom was the road we were about to drive).<br />
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Once we got the South Rim of the Grand Canyon it was almost night. Also, once again we were entering a national park through the non-main entrance. Thus we had to drive 25 miles in the park to get to our campsite. We decided to stop at the first viewpoint to see the Grand Canyon at sunset before we headed to the campground (even though we knew we'd end up setting up the tent in the dark again). This was the view at the Desert View viewpoint (with the Colorado River at the bottom):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Canyon South Rim</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset at Grand Canyon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset at Grand Canyon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids at South Rim of Grand Canyon at Sunset</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watchtower at Grand Canyon at Sunset</td></tr>
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So, after we finally made it to our campsite, we had to set up in the dark. This time we got to keep the same campsite for two days, so that was good. But, it was an odd-shaped site and it was hard to find a location within the campsite to fit our tent (it's pretty big at 10 ft x 17 ft). We finally fit it between two trees with a tree right in front on the main tent entrance. Then we had to find the bathroom (turns out there was a little trail a little ways down from our campsite). Then we headed off to bed to prepare for a day of hiking and viewing of the Grand Canyon. At least there were no noisy neighbors this time, but they guy in the next campsite snored to loud that it woke up David and me in the middle of the night.<br />
<br />Heidi Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08708897113810995307noreply@blogger.com0Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA36.2317194 -113.030911235.4120884 -114.29433870000001 37.051350400000004 -111.7674837