Hiking in the Redwoods

In January, we took Zach on his second hike in the Redwoods (the first was our camping trip to Hendy Woods State Park.) This time we stayed a little closer to home and headed south to one of the many parks and preserves in San Mateo county. This one, the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve, is just a 35 minute drive away.

Zach crawled around on the forest floor a bit, but mostly he just chilled/slept in the Ergo as Amy carried him around.

Playground and Carousel in Golden Gate Park

Back in January, as part of San Francisco's annual Family Day, we went to the newly renovated playground and carousel in Golden Gate Park.

The carousel is 94 years old, and admission was free as part of Family Day. The playground, thought to be the first public playground in the U.S., has a California Coastal theme and is always free :)

Zach was still "army crawling" at the time, so he could only enjoy a limited part of the playground. We've gone to other parks many times since then, and once he could crawl and stand, he could interact with a greater variety of play structures. He does more and more every time we go. So hopefully we'll go back to the playground in Golden Gate Park soon, and he can climb and crawl and swing and slide to his heart's content.

The carousel is inside the domed structure, the playground
is behind it. To the left is the Sharon Art Studio, San Francisco's
largest public community art center.




Closeup of the carousel building.




All the parks in San Francisco have these signs posted.





Man, *I* want to go play on all this stuff, it's so cool!




I'm not sure what this is supposed to be - a tree
maybe? - whatever it is, it's awesome.




Climbing walls in the shape of waves.




Pelican! There was also a turtle and a hermit crab.




Mommy and son having fun on the pelican.




Here we are getting ready for the carousel ride.




Ride 'em, cowboy!





I got soooo dizzy after this ride. I felt nauseous
for hours afterward! Zach, of course, was fine.





What blog post would be complete with out shot of stilt walkers?
It's not everyday that you can see people walking on stilts in
San Francisco ... um, wait ... actually it probably is every day ...
but in top hats and striped pants? That's just crazy.