May 23rd-May 26th: Memorial weekend in NorCal

Let's go back in time and explore our great long 4 days weekend we spent in Northern California during Memorial Holiday. Memorial weekend was my first holiday since New Year Eve, it was really about time! I wish I would spend May in France or Germany...

Anyway, we had to go to the French Consulate to establish Ivan's Schengen visa for next winter. We decided to pack our camping gear, and to camp and hike at the Austin Creek State Park, located about 2 hours North from San Francisco. Ce park est repute pour ces sequoias geants!

We stayed there 2 days and a half and came back for one day in SF.

Our lucky star followed us during this trip:

- we could get a camping spot (first comes first serves basis) while people before us had been refused because the camping was still full at this time. Thank you the traffic jam! :)

- we had two days sun, one day mist, and one day rain, which makes u very lucky since Portlander got 4 miserable days of rain and cold

- While the campground was full, we were almost all alone on the hiking trails - nice!

Here comes the best pics:









Videos and 3D to follow...stay tuned....