Adam and I borrowed my dad's series of blue planet and have been watching about an hour a night for the past week. It is beautiful, amazing, interesting, and definitely worth watching. Way better than the bachelorette (sorry kate but it is true). The first segment we watched was all about the redwoods. Damn, I wish I had a better memory because it would be cool if I could spew out some neat facts here and impress you all. Adam is great at that, so tonight during our date night (yeh, you heard right...my awesome parents have offered to watch charlie every friday for an hour or so, so that adam and I can enjoy each others company alone...well not so alone cuz we got the screecher creature), anyway tonight I will ask adam what the documentary said about redwoods and I will edit my post.
I feel so special having lived in and amongst redwoods my whole life. I think they are the biggest trees on earth, or maybe oldest. Shit, I have no memory. Anyway we have been enjoying hiking lately, and always in the redwoods. Charlie runs around saying whooo and wow at everything from a big tree (biii tweeee) to a banana slugs. He stops and smells the flowers (no joke, another Aunt Na teaching) and does his cool man strut up and down the trails. Last weekend we ventured up to Heritage Grove, a beautiful forest of majestic ancient redwoods in La Honda. Some of these huge trees are still marked from over 3 decades ago when loggers planned to cut them down, but tree hugging liberals stopped them, and because of these brave and courageous citizens, we can walk among these incredible trees. Perfect example of how "liberals" have helped us...not to mention women voting, 40 hour work week, safe water and air laws....yada yada yada I will save that rant for another post. Here are some pics from our latest and greatest hike..
Can I throw this one, dad?
my boys, aren't they a cute pair?
Strolling upstream hand in hand
That's one happy hiker
And he's off...again
Raising him right: to be a tree hugger
Big and Beautiful...
This is how we roll....
yet another happy hiker
We may never own a home, prius, or iphone (my wishlist in that exact order), but we will always be able to enjoy our natural surroundings....as long as we all keep raising our kids to be tree hugging liberals
3 comments:
At least he doesn't smell like a hippie . . . yet.
Yay! New posts! I've been wondering what you guys have been up to!
forget the house and the prius, just get the iphone and everything will be good!
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