Camping in Sequoia!

Yep we went camping. You know the kind with a tent - thank goodness for blow up mattresses! It was actually fun. We did a little hike everyday. Here we did the 100 year giant trail full of redwood trees. I will admit they were beautiful. Most were hundreds of years old if not a thousand. If there were two trees close together they actually would grow into one massive trunk. It is hard to explain, but if you were looking up at the trees you would see 2 separate trees. If you looked at the base it was just one tree. Sometimes there were cave like holes in the middle of the trees that would make a pretty cool house. :) Well if you were inclined to have to live outdoors. In the pictures you will see that S was very into this pose the whole trip. Why ask why. *notice the hole in Sushi's shoe - I thought girls were easier on stuff than boys. Wrong -that is like her 3rd pair she has ruined.
I have to mention it - no matter how obvious it is. When you camp there is so much DIRT!! This was a pretty normal look for the Sushinator.

Ready to pick rice you may think, but this was K outfitted for our hike. It was kind of comical and very cute.

Oh and the bugs. It must be nice being a kid and camping, because everything you love is outside (and sometimes inside) your tent. There is a little caterpillar climbing on S's sleeve - he is definitely a bug man.

Then there was the night of the dirt fight. Yep - they even thought it would be funny to pour dirt on their heads, and down their shirts. You can only imagine our tubs when we got home after 4 days of camping.

This part was my boys favorite part. The smoke, I mean FIRE! Every night they were chomping at the bit to help get it started. We of course had smores every night until we ran out of supplies.

The hardest part about camping was the sleeping! Sushi had a really hard time sleeping because of the cold. That is why we ended up leaving a night early. We needed our beds! :)

Off topic - a couple of days ago my mom was up visiting. J was giving her a list of his favorite people. My mom made the top of course. His list is as follows:

1- Grandma (my mom)

2- Dad

3- Sushi

4- S (little brother)

5- Mom .. Yep here I am - at the bottom of the list. It kind of made me wonder where I would be if we had a dog. :)