Adventures of the Neeley Family: The Start of 4th Grade and the Big Trip Down the Pacific Coast

We started August with Zane entering 4th grade. Zane's favorite subjects are History and Science and thankfully he still likes his teacher.

First day of fourth grade

Around the middle of the month Zane and Jess flew to Washington. We spent a few days with my friend Cori. Zane spent lots of time mowing and weed eating her yard. And we spent a day at a water park and ropes course.

Zane and Cori

Zane

Zane and Cori

They rode a zip line out to an obstacle and back

Then we met up with Charm in Washington and headed to the coast. Once there we met up with Charm's motorcycle group from Iowa. There were 6 of them that joined us following the coast all the way to San Francisco. First stop-Olympic National Park.

Grandma and Zane

The Oregon Coast

Tillamook Cheese Factory

Sea Lion Caves

Darlingtonia State Park-those are carnivorous plants

Playing on the beach

Arch in a sea rock

Once in California we stopped at the Trees of Mystery and the Humbolt Redwoods.

Bridges through the Redwoods

Zane and Grandma

Zane

Grandma

Zane

Zane at the Chandelier Tree

Zane and Grandma

Grandma riding her motorcycle through the Chandelier Tree

Next was Point Reyes National Seashore. We had beautiful weather with no wind. We hiked down to the lighthouse, all 313 steps! Once down there we saw a bunch of whales.

The hike down

We made it down

Zane making his way up

Whales

Sadly when we got to the Golden Gate Bridge it was completely covered in fog. We did get to take a tour of the Jelly Belly Factory.

Every single box contains 25 lbs of Jelly Bellys

Jelly Belly Art

We then headed back to Hartland with Grandma. That weekend Zane's cousin Connor was able to join us. We headed up to the Sequoias to hike the Big Stump Trail, see the General Grant tree and Buck Rock fire lookout.