Butterfly Park Hike

The day after Christmas we headed out for a nice hike in a butterfly preserve in Santa Barbara. Unfrtunately we never saw any butterflies, but we still had a wonderful day hiking and exploring.

 
 
 
 

Hiking

This hike included a beautiful view of a waterfall pouring onto the beach.

On our drive home we headed back down Hwy 1. There were a couple of nice short trails that we stopped off at for some hiking to break up the long drive a little bit.

Weekend Getaway

Over Thanksgiving weekend we drove up to Monterrey, CA to do some sight seeing. We took scenic Hwy 1 the whole way up which goes along the jagged Big Sur coast. It was a beautiful drive along the ocean. We stopped for lunch and also made a stop off at SandDollar Beach for a quick hike down to burn off some energy.

Hiking

More hiking pictures.

Stopping for a short snack break.




Heading back down the trail

Morning Hike

We went for a short hike on San Ysidro trail nearby. There was a nice little stream to walk by that mostly had water in it...

Some bouldering along the trail.


Braedyn found lots of rocks to throw in the stream.

More Hiking

Braedyn was a little trooper on our hike and made it pretty much the entire loop around the lake on his own. There was lots of stopping off for rock throwing and taking pictures.

 
 
 
 

Grand Lake Hike

Mema and Papa met us for a morning hike near Grand Lake. It was a perfect day and the scenery was gorgeous.

 
 

 
 

Latigo Ranch

Talisha has an Aunt and Uncle who own a ranch in the mountains between Kremmling and Steamboat Springs. We headed up there one day while we were in Winter Park to see them, Talisha's Grandma and Mema and Papa who were out visiting as well. We had a lot of fun visiting, eating, watching horses, hiking around, playing in the stream, swimming in the pool and lots of other things.

 
 
 

More Hiking

More hiking on the Mesa trail along Eldorado creek.

 
 
 
 

Hiking

Talisha ditched us all on Sunday afternoon to hang out wiht her friend Sandy, so Braedyn, Grandma, Grandpa and Daddy headed out near Eldorado Canyon for a short hike. We didn't get too far as the river is right at the start of the hike so we mostly just walked along, threw rocks in and then ended up jumping in as well.