Crescent City

My dear friend Meridith is from the little town of Crescent City, California. She was headed home for the summer and since I had a week of no babysitting or work I decided to tag along. We started the 14 hour drive on Friday and luckily made it to our motel in Winnemucca, Nevada despite a few car problems.

 

Scenic drive through the Salt Flats

 We continued the drive on Saturday through the not-so-beautiful desert landscape of Nevada.
Once we got to Oregon the drive became more cloudy, green, and beautiful. 

After 9 hours of being in the car we were finally in California and minutes away from Crescent City!

Monday night we had a barbecue on the beach.

Roasting Starbursts!

On Tuesday we did some shopping, went and saw Men in Black III, went to the pier and babysat Meridith's adorable nieces and nephews.

Wednesday was the Fourth of July so we went to the Crescent City Parade.

Sometimes we wear mustaches

After the parade we headed over to the city's festivities and waited in line for an hour for curly fries which turned out to be a waste of time. I bought a cute owl purse from the little boutique shops that were set up.

Later in the day we went to the beach to have a bonfire and watched the fireworks off the pier. 

A tad sunburned from the parade.

It was really hard to get a good picture of the fireworks

Thursday was my last full day before heading home. 

First we went to Ocean World which is like a mini Sea World...but smaller. :)

Playing in the tide pool.

Sea Slug

Petting the shark

Shark Egg Sack a.k.a. a Mermaid Purse

After our exciting visit to Ocean World we went to the Light House 

but since it was high tide we couldn't walk out to it.

One last shot of the ocean

After dinner we went on a walk through the Redwoods. I could have stayed there for hours, it was so green and peaceful.

 

On the way home we stopped by the lake and I caught the beautiful sunset.

On Friday Meridith and her sweet mom drove me to the Medford Oregon Airport where I began my trip home. I had such a fun and relaxing week! Thank you Walch family!

Oh and don't even worry... my flight from Portland to SLC just so happened to be the same flight that the Portland Timbers Soccer team was on. And my seat just happened to be smack-dab in the middle of all those attractive athletes. I didn't mind those 2 hours one bit.