Sunday, April 18, 2010

Rock City

We live about 5 minutes from this beautiful state park. FYU, state parks are free this week due to earth day. Not that they are too expensive otherwise, but still. It takes about 15 minutes to get up the mountain. Originally we were going to go to Big Sur, but due to no campsites available went up the street to Mount Diablo State Park for a day trip. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed every minute of it. We headed strait to Rock City where the boys enjoyed climbing the rocks, driving RC cars over the rocks, chasing lizards, going on adventures and climbing trees. I got to read a little, Danny, Tyler and Kira got a nap and our day was a success.
Tyler would climb the rocks, get to a perfect spot, throw his car and go retrieve it before doing it all over again. He loves playing with his little cars.

We told the boys not to play with the red ants and Tyler got so scared of them for about 15 minutes that all he wanted to do was be held. It was quite silly. He is never scared of things, especially insects.
Scott found a hole to play in.

Kira did quite well in the baby bjorn which made hiking much easier.

The lizard we never caught. All Scott wants to do is catch the lizards in our court, at camping, wherever we are and of course we can never do it. Any hints??
Climbing trees. Scott is getting pretty good at climbing. Tyler is lucky to get about 2 feet about the ground.


3 comments:

DavidandJuliann said...

Danny and Heidi,
Looks like a lot of fun on Mt. Diablo. Juliann and I went there once and had an enjoyable outing. We must of not gone to the place you went to; it looked unfamiliar to us.
I was talking to my neighbor across the street who was driving his radio controlled car. He probably got it up to 30 mph. He said that years ago if you wanted speed you had to have a gas engine but nowadays, the technology is such that the electrics go faster, are easier to maintain, etc. Anyway, sounds fun.

The Simmons Family said...

Looks like you guys had a great time enjoying the outdoors! I love the picture of Kira slumped over your arm as cozy as can be. :)

Julia M. said...

What a blast! I know one of Ben's uncles (on the other side) uses a fishing pole with a tasty treat on the end of it, and he catches lizards every time. There's nothing wrong with being 55 and still wanting to catch lizards, right?

So fun!