With some yummy snacks in hand, we hit the road once again towards our next destination, Santa Rosa, Ca. As we neared our spot, the family wanted a clue as to what our next stop would be.
I ignored the question and instead kept asking them to "hand me" stuff from the back seat. I repeated it several times. Bonnie laughed as we drove by our next ginormous California oddity, but sadly the kids didn't get it. Cayd even complained that I didn't give him a clue. Geesh . . .
Must see # 14: Giant hand-- Santa Rosa, CA
The giant hand was located in the front of a mall entrance. So we drove around and found a spot to park and as we were walking towards the mall, we actually came across part of our next must see adventure!
Must See # 15: Peanuts statues-- Santa Rosa, CA
The city of Santa Rosa was home to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. So now there are several statues located around town of his many different characters. We didn't visit with them all, but did find many of them.
At one statue, we were attempting a self timed picture that we could all be in (I must say, our family is pretty good at getting self timed photos). A kind lady walking her dogs came by though and asked if she could take the picture for us. Great! We said. Then she kind of looked around and told us that she didn't know what to do with the dogs while she took the picture. It was a little odd I must admit, but good ol' Bon had the perfect solution, and that is why there are a few extra guests in one of the photos.
In the same area that we found some of the peanuts statues, we came across this random scissor statue as well. We think it was a slide, meaning, we all took some time to actually slide down it, but I don't know if that is technically what it was meant to be. It was a fun little addition to this very statue crazed city we were in.
We then went to the mall and had some dinner. Originally I had planned for this to be our stop for the evening. But being that it wasn't too late, we opted to drop that plan and drove about an hour north to the little city of Ukiah where we found us a hotel which oddly enough, was located right next door to the slowest McDonalds in all of California. Eventually though, we did get our desserts and headed to bed.
3 comments:
i have to ask, in the photo that the lady took for you - did she cut off lucy's head or did you just do that for the collage?
so were the statues all close to one another or did you do a lot of driving around? another fun adventure!
jody
Sweet again! I think I would see all of that except for maybe the slowest McDonalds in all of California. That probably wasn't one of your stops though! Haha. Love it all.
If you would have know that there was going to be a giant pair of scizzors you could have worked the "cut it out" phrase into you dialogues with the kids... like when they were too noisy or fighting or farting or whatever. Neat place. I love peanuts and Charles Schulz... great post.
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