Americans have a great way of arranging public holidays so that it falls on a Monday most of the time (except for certain holidays that are fixed in date – Independence Day, Christmas). This means long weekends are commonplace and most folks do their best to make use of breaks like this to get away.
For us, we spent the weekend at Fresno and took the opportunity to visit Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park. These two parks are the home of the giant sequoia trees, the largest living plants on earth. And since it was winter, we had the added pleasure of experiencing the Sierra forest covered in snow.
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It was going to be Gabriel’s first trip in the snow so we dressed him appropriately – a friend in R’s mothers group lent us a snowsuit. Gabriel barely fitted – he looked like a stuffed doll ready to squeak. We took him on a short walk around the seqouia grove and realized he was too young to appreciate the majesty of nature when he fell asleep in his carrier.
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