Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The Excitement Mounts

Day Two - Garberville, CA to Anaheim, CA: After another 12 hour plus day of traveling, we were so excited to drive through L.A. Passing by exit signs to Hollywood and so many other famous sounding places, you really feel the energy of the city. Cars driving 75 in the 55 mph zone, and the city so immense it just keeps going and going. 42 miles from the northern end of it to Anaheim. It just doesn't look that far on the map! We pulled into our hotel at 9:30 pm, passing by throngs of people streaming out of the gates of Disneyland. Our hotel is right across the street and everyone is feeling excited now. It's a good thing we were all so exhausted or it would have been hard to sleep.

We started off the day visiting the huge Chandelier Tree, a Redwood tree that branches out up high like a chandelier. You can drive through this tree but it is much too small for our mini-van. Patrick's mom had sent a photo from his childhood of them under that tree, and we wanted to create a second generation photo. Below are the results.

Getting Ready For the Shot.


Erin, Ruth and Patrick Voelker


Sofia, Patrick and Otis Voelker


The kids are waking Patrick up by playing Minecraft Monster noises. Guess it's time to get going!

2 comments:

SarahTien said...

The sign has changed. ;)

Liz said...

yes, I'm curious why!