Birthday Weekend {Part 1}

Poor neglected blog. Since my favorite photo collage website shut down and no subsequent replacement is available quite yet, I'm dragging my feet to post pictures off my camera. Oh well.

 The past two weeks have been full! One of the highest highlights was our birthday weekend...as well as a highlight that was actually fully captured on camera, not just our phones... Instead of being responsible adults and cleaning house or doing laundry that still hadn't been done post-OC trip, we left Saturday morning in hunt of a family adventure.

Our plan: Muirwoods. Hiking. But when we were still five miles out and about to begin the windy road, we hit solid stand-still traffic. It was time for plan B.

We decided to just follow the 1 South and happened to get off at Fort Baker; same place that houses the Discovery Museum. We parked, got out to stretch our legs, and find a bathroom. Plus, figure out what the heck we were going to do next. As we were walking up to the water, we saw a Coast Guard tent with people standing around with life-jackets. Turns out it was "Water Safety Week" or something of that sort. So, the CG had a few boats docked and were letting people on.

 Cool! We'll check that out.

We all got to sport the vest-wear before looking in their boats!

We hung around the dock and ships for awhile.

Then it was off to the Bridge for a nice family photo op. And that's when we saw that little sign right there on the path. Hiking trails!! Perfect! Couldn't have planned it better ourselves...clearly. And so, our make-it-up-as-we-go-plan B was already proving to be a grand adventure.

We loaded up all the goods and set off to follow the arrows.

And I'll leave it at that for now. I took a ridiculous amount of pictures that should have their own post. That way I'm not force to omit too many. ;)

Off we went to see what this "Coastal Trial" was all about...