Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
From the home movie role of an aspiring shakespearian actress
....somebody wants to live in Ashland. oh yeah. goooooood luck!
sunday
We started off our day with a nice light breakfast, then headed out to try to find the kinetic race. This ended up being a walking tour of the industrial part of Eureka.
Eventually we found the kinetic sculptures in the water. One of the best ones was the hippipotimous, which was quite impressive.
We made our way to the staging area, and ended up being interviewed by the Discovery Channel (for the new Daily Green show, will air in June). We wanted to see the chicken sculpture go into the water, but they were taking forever and not at all ready so we left to get some lunch.
After lunch, we headed to a wine tasting room, only to discover it was closed on Sunday. For dinner, we went to the lost coast brewery, after we found out that a bunch of other places were closed on Sunday. It was good again.
Eventually we found the kinetic sculptures in the water. One of the best ones was the hippipotimous, which was quite impressive.
We made our way to the staging area, and ended up being interviewed by the Discovery Channel (for the new Daily Green show, will air in June). We wanted to see the chicken sculpture go into the water, but they were taking forever and not at all ready so we left to get some lunch.
After lunch, we headed to a wine tasting room, only to discover it was closed on Sunday. For dinner, we went to the lost coast brewery, after we found out that a bunch of other places were closed on Sunday. It was good again.
Sunday: Kinetic Sculture Race Here We Come
We stayed up all night last night perfecting our Kinetic Sculpture - we are headed out now to try and "slip in" to the race midway. Today is the water portion...yippeee! Look for us online!
Saturday: 13 miles of hiking....steep hiking
The one place that supposedly we were supposed to get fishing tackle at (it is not like there are multiples of anything inside the Smith River NRA) was closed. Maybe they had "gone fishin". Unfortunately that left us tackleless...but we didn't let that get us down....we decided to go hiking instead! We stopped at the visitor center for Redwood State and National Parks to find hikes to do.
We spent almost an hour in the park visitor center talking with a ranger about different hikes, drives, the history of the park, different tree bark types, the watershed, logging, whales, and an endangered seabird that nests in the old growth forests. Will and I thought it was really interesting but apparently Leslie cannot concentrate on anything while standing up.
The first hike that we did (or, more like a stroll) was the stout road trail - a short half mile loop. It was a great introduction to seeing some really cool lookin redwoods.
The next hike was on the Boy Scout Trail, a much tougher 3.7 mile trail (X2) out which ended at a waterfall. On the way, we detoured to see a the boy scout tree (a big redwood).
After forfeiting lunch , we did the Damnation Creek Trail. This took us 1000 feet down to the coast, then up that 1000 feet back to the car. It was 2.5 miles (5 miles total round trip). Surprisingly, we made better time coming back uphill than down. The difficulty class of this trail was six (out of six). I had to drag Leslie and Will but once they saw all the old people walking up that had done it they felt like they had to do it...haha. The view at the rocky beach below was well worth the hike back up.
We arrived in Eureka at the Carter House Inn just in time to shower before heading out to the Lost Coast Brewery for dinner. We saw lots of kinetic sculpture people there - what AMAZING costumes.
Then we drove down to Eureka
We spent almost an hour in the park visitor center talking with a ranger about different hikes, drives, the history of the park, different tree bark types, the watershed, logging, whales, and an endangered seabird that nests in the old growth forests. Will and I thought it was really interesting but apparently Leslie cannot concentrate on anything while standing up.
The first hike that we did (or, more like a stroll) was the stout road trail - a short half mile loop. It was a great introduction to seeing some really cool lookin redwoods.
The next hike was on the Boy Scout Trail, a much tougher 3.7 mile trail (X2) out which ended at a waterfall. On the way, we detoured to see a the boy scout tree (a big redwood).
After forfeiting lunch , we did the Damnation Creek Trail. This took us 1000 feet down to the coast, then up that 1000 feet back to the car. It was 2.5 miles (5 miles total round trip). Surprisingly, we made better time coming back uphill than down. The difficulty class of this trail was six (out of six). I had to drag Leslie and Will but once they saw all the old people walking up that had done it they felt like they had to do it...haha. The view at the rocky beach below was well worth the hike back up.
We arrived in Eureka at the Carter House Inn just in time to shower before heading out to the Lost Coast Brewery for dinner. We saw lots of kinetic sculpture people there - what AMAZING costumes.
Then we drove down to Eureka
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Where is the fun?
If you [family] don't start posting some comments then maybe we will stop posting some blog....surely it is easier for you guys that it is for us in the boonies. :-)
Good Morning Sunshines!!!
What I awoke to this morning:
"I love it when I'm wrapped in white sheets and its dark....I finally look tan!!!!"
Last night we also survived a night in the same room as ...."the killer electric blanket". Will was startled to find wires and electronic parts incased in the blanket he was sleeping with and thought it was going to strangle or electrocute him in the night....but he survived!!!!
Also last night we survived the "killer green flash" of the internet card telling us that it was meagerly trying to upload the pictures (it timed out).
Whew....thank goodness we survived.
Also, I should note that I have never actually smelled Leslie and she is smelling nice and sweet like a teenage boy this morning (Old Spice "Ocean Splash").
We are off to get some fishing licenses and gear and drive through some gnarly redwoods down to Eureka!.
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