21.august: Sequoia Forest, California

Theme songs: "I've had the time of my life", from Dirty Dancing (what they were playing at the restaurant when UC dug into her fries).

We drove from the hotel at 11 AM so ready to see the Sequoia Forest. We had to go for a swim in the pool first of course, that's why we never leave the hotels before we abolutely have to! The drive took us about 6 hours, we arrived at the Nationl Park around 5 PM. Since we have an Annual Pass we got our map and didn't have to pay for the entrance (seems like it costs $ 20 to get in at most N.P's). But we would have happily paid just about anything when we saw forest. We drove through the Kings Canyon which was very pretty with trees hanging over the road and high mountains. Then the road got kinda challenging so I didn't see so  much more of that part of the N.P as I was too busy trying to stay on the road. But all of a sudden UC cried out "spider!!!" and we had to stop. It was a tarantella and it was huge!!

And then we arrived at The Giant Forest where the Sequoia Trees are located, and it was magnificent!! Here are some pictures from the National Park and of the trees:

It is huge!!

Tree-hugging is always a good idea :)

UC in front of Genral Sherman, the biggest living tree in the world!

Me and General Sherman <3

The forest was beautiful

This tree must feel small...it is in front of General Sherman which measures 31 meters around the trunk!

Sunset..again!

The base of a Sequoia tree..

Yet another sunset, what will we do when we get back to Oslo and there are no sunsets like this!

After the forest (and the frightening drive down from the National Park) we ended up at Best Western in Lemoore. We had a late dinner at a loal restaurant called something-something Vineyard (I'll find out the exact name of it). UC has sweetpotato fries and was over the moon. We both decided to have fish, and we were very happy with that choice.

Then we went back to the hotel and watch some stand-up on tv before we went to bed.