Sequoia and Kings Canyon

Today we headed into Sequoia National Park. Again, the roads were very scary...and they were doing road construction, so the road into Sequoia was only open every hour on the hour. Before we even got up the mountain, we had decided we were going to do everything we wanted to do today so we didn't have to make this drive again tomorrow. Once we got up the mountain and took a look at the enormous trees and beautiful forest, it was easy to forget about the crazy drive in.

We stopped at the visitor's center first to get the Junior Ranger activity books for the kids. One of the things on the list they had to do was collect a bag of trash and/or recycling to bring in. Zachary loved that part! The kids collected a full bag of each.

The hike we decided to do was the General Sherman Trail. The General Sherman tree is the largest tree in the world by volume. It was just an amazing site.

After the hike, we continued our drive, making a few stops along the drive. We finally stopped to have lunch at one of the few places in the park to eat. After lunch we decided to continue on with the drive to Kings Canyon National Park. Zachary fell asleep and the kids were tired, so we made a quick stop at the visitor's center and then headed back to the hotel. On the way out, we stopped at Tunnel Rock and Zachy posed for a quick picture.