Roughin' It

This is our tent that we slept in when we went camping. It's pitch black at night when you wake up in the middle of the night when nature calls.

I almost burned down the entire forest when I put too many logs in the fire pit in the beginning. Those flames were reaching a nearby tree and there were tons of dried pine needles all over the forest floor. I'm surprised there aren't more fires than there already are. The picture here shows a much smaller fire after the chaotic start.

Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon is a very scenic national park. There are huge canyon walls and wild rivers and waterfalls. Too bad you can't go whitewater rafting here. You will be bashed into the rocks.

Fallen Monarch

A fallen king.

General Grant

The General Grant tree is the second largest tree in the world. It's the largest tree in the Grant Grove.

Sequoia

At the Sequoia National Park.

The Largest Tree in the World

General Sherman is the largest living thing in the world. It resides in the Giant Forest. Sequoia trees are pretty awesome to behold. They're not as big as the trees in the Ewok Village on the planet Endor from the movie Return of the Jedi. Actually, I believe that this is where the movie was filmed.

Bambi Lives

There are a bunch of Bambi's family members running around the giant forest.

Log Tunnel

Driving under a fallen tree.

Moro Rock

Moro Rock is a giant granite dome in Sequoia National Park. The views are spectacular here. They're so spectacular that they scared Sarah because she's afraid of heights. I wanted to base jump or hang glide off Moro Rock.

More posts of our trip to Sequoia to come. This will be a multi-part trip report.

Come Hither My Deer

Sarah asking the deer to come to her....


This was taken on our trip to Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. Sequoia National Park is my favorite national park. It's about a 4 and a half hour drive from Los Angeles. It's also the second oldest national park after Yellowstone.

I took a lot of pictures, so I will update my posts as I upload the pictures to my blog.

Children's Art Contest

While the Mission Bazaar was going on, we had an art contest for the kids. They also got some wonderful prizes. The theme of the contest was "Outrigger Island", which is also the theme of this year's Vacation Bible School, VBS.

Soo Jin and Miju, who are art majors, helped out a lot.

I appreciate art, but I'm not artistic at all. I think the kids can draw better than me.

Mission Bazaar

Berendo Street Baptist Church Mission Bazaar. This bazaar/fair was a fundraiser for our church missionaries.

Knott's Berry Farm

I went with Mikey with his schoolmates to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. There were kids from kindergarten to 8th grade. I chaperoned the kindergarten to 1st graders along with a couple of other parents.

Mikey's friends were Jacob, Timothy, Isaiah, Alexander, and Alden. Even though we had the best chaperone to kid ratio of 2:1 among the school groups there, it was still chaotic trying to get those kids to stay together. They were like little monkeys who wanted to go off in every direction. We had to keep counting them every couple minutes to make sure they were all there.

Since they were little kids, we mostly stayed in the Camp Snoopy area. We didn't go on the really fun roller coasters. I'll have to come back next time to ride those.

Mikey was afraid of the kiddy coasters at first, but he liked them afterwards.

He was also able to win a little stuffed polar bear playing those rip off carnival games. He threw a ping pong ball into a small cup floating on water.

I guess it was a fun day, but I couldn't wait to go back home. Watching over kids is tiring work, especially at an amusement park. When I go try to bring back one kid that has run off to check out something he fancies, another kid goes off to another direction to look at something else. They also wanted to buy everything they saw and play every game too. I had to tell them no all the time, because they quickly ran out of money. I also had to make sure they didn't yell too much or fight with one another. This type of stuff happened all day long.