Sunday Fun

We are having been taking advantage of our church's Saturday night services this summer, so Sunday we had a full day to have some fun. It was supposed to be really hot in the valley, so we headed out to the mountains between us and Santa Cruz for some cooler temperatures. We started our day in Big Basin, a state park with great hiking through Redwood Forests. We did a short 3.5 mile hike to a small water.

Emma and compared to the size of a Redwood tree

Breaking in the double stroller

Made it to the waterfall

We were expecting something a little more spectacular :)
After our hike, we headed to Santa Cruz for lunch at our favorite design your own pasta restaurant. Emma loves this restaurant because they give her pizza dough to play with. We filled our bellies and headed off to another adventure....
A trip up Bear Mountain on a steam engine railroad

Our train

The conductor collects our tickets

The whole family... well at the the back of Ian's head :)

At the top of the mountain, we collected a Wells Fargo shipment...

and the train got held up

Luckily we got away with all our belongings and headed back down the mountain

The engine let off a little steam

Emma brought her binoculars to watch out for bears

Emma and Daddy with the engine

From Roaring Camp Steam Train