Summer Vacation

Ok...so, here is the first segment of the long awaited (I'm sure) vacation diary! We decided to spend our vacation camping up north this year! So, on day one, we headed off to the Sequoia National Park!

Yes...everything was "shoved" in the van...there was even stuff on the roof! We were SOOOO COOL!!! The kids had plenty of room however...and the best part of all...they couldn't touch each other!

Yes mom...I make my kids jump out and take pictures in front of signs too!

The Sequoia's were amazing! The scenery there was so beautiful! The kids loved looking at all of the huge trees!

This is one of the views we had as we drove into the park. It was amazing!

We took a hike to the General Sherman Tree. It is the biggest tree ever! The kids couldn't get over how fat it was! They even found some trees close to it that they could walk in. They thought that was pretty cool!

After driving all day, we left the National Park and went to Fresno for the night. Shane had booked us a room across from Fresno State. Well, when we called for directions, (yes we were lost before Shane would put the notch in his mancard and call for directions) they told us that they had overbooked and didn't have a room for us! GREAT! They told us that they had one at their hotel over by the airport and so to go over there. We did...and when we got there, they told us that they didn't have any rooms with two beds in them. GREAT...AGAIN! Then then told us that they would give us adjoining rooms. Of course, that second room was coming out of their pocket, because we had a confirmation for our room at the other place...for $99 which included breakfast...which this hotel also had to comp! We finally had our room keys in hand and went to dinner...around 10:30 p.m.! When we got back, we went to our rooms...only to find that our "adjoining rooms" were on opposite sides of the hall! Shane went down AGAIN and finally we had rooms that actually connected!

So...other than the "tiny" hotel problem...day one was actually pretty great!

OH...extra bonus to the hotel story...they called us a few days after we got home. They had charged the room to someone elses credit card and needed our number!