Around Humboldt

Debbie and Matrim at the biggest tree in one of our parks. We took Craig and Debbie for a good little hike through the trees.

Some of us boys tolerating some shopping with the girls! Brian, Athena W., Athena, and Debbie are in this picture at one of the popular clothes stores in Arcata.

Craig and Matrim are playing catch with Hershey out back of our house. I hurried to catch this picture and was surprised when it worked since it was through our old-school glass window in the dining room.

Athena, Nick, and I went out to dinner at the Pantry in Arcata. I can't remember what music was playing (so Athena will have to comment to fill in the details of the story) but I remember that I was feeling pretty good and coudn't help laughing and making jokes about how terrible the music was. The waitress even overheard one of my jokes and knew I must be talking about the song playing.

Matrim is going down the slide at the park we went hiking in the trees with Craig and Debbie.

Matrim is standing by a stump that burned and broke.

Nick climbs up a redwood stump at the redwood park behind Humboldt State. This is one of the stumps that has another redwood growing out of it's top.

He made it to the top...but the way down is always the trickiest part! It was a good 15 feet or so to the top of this stump.

Matrim's first view of his new bike/trailer from Craig and Debbie. It's love at first sight! ; )

His first real try at peddling. It didn't go too bad even though he couldn't reach the pedals all the way, and the tires weren't fully inflated yet, and the weight of the trailer, and he's on grass.

"I made it to the pavement!" :)

We're all watching Mat try his first turns on his bike.

This whole trip I had to try hard to get pictures of people without them all taking pictures at the same time. ; )