We started Violet's summer vacation with her long-awaited trip to Sequoia National Park. This was her main Christmas wish, so we had promised her a mini trip, just the three of us. (Cora doesn't love nature the same way, so she went to Grandma and Grandpa's.)
We left Sunday morning, and after resting in our sweet motel room in Three Rivers, drove the next hour into the park.
We made the General Sherman Tree our first big stop, since it's the biggest tree (by volume) in the world! (It's the one in the middle background.)
Another view of the Big One. It's a nice easy paved walk down to the tree, though it's a bit steep coming back up to the main parking lot.
In the same area was this tunnel-walk-through tree.
Behind Violet here is Moro Rock, a HUGE chunk of granite you can actually walk to the top of, on a trail with more than 350 steps.
We had to do it!
The views were incredible, of course!
Somehow, this tree is growing in the granite.
On our return to Three Rivers, we were happy that the Gateway restaurant was still open on a Sunday night. It had a fancy, fabulous setting, right on the Kaweah River. Violet had fun counting the ducks right below us; our server then showed us video on his phone of a bobcat carrying one off a few weeks ago! He also showed us a photo of a bear right below, also!
Day One was a success!
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