New Hampshire and the White Mountains!

We had a 3 day weekend the first of August so we made a family trip up to New Hampshire for some hiking and the famous Story Land theme park! It's about a 4 hour drive from where we live.  We heard New Hampshire was beautiful and it didn't disappoint.  We had a great time!  Andrew and I both agree we want to make this trip again.

We saw this bear on the side of the road on our way to story land.

I have been waiting to see a covered bridge since coming to the east coast!

We were waiting for rain to clear up a bit before going to the theme park so we drove on some country roads for a scenic view.  We kept seeing signs that read "Moose Crossing-100's of accidents a year".  I think Andrew hoped we'd see a moose.  I was hoping we wouldn't!

This was a lake we stopped at and fed some fish.  The fish were deep in the water so you wouldn't see them until they popped out for the food .  The kids loved it!

Here is Story Land!  This was the first photo op.  This place was like Enchanted Forest back home but way bigger and cleaner.  Leif was scared of Humpty Dumpty because his eyes moved.

We baked the kids in a pie!

I just like this picture because of Leifs face.  I told him to growl like a tiger and he made this face while doing it.  Cracks me up!

Pinochio!

Family photo on Alice in Wonderland's teacup ride.  Andrew was not allowed to spin the wheel!

It rained a little bit on us so we ducked in the Carousel to dry off.  You could rock these horses back and forth.

The swan boats were fun! There was a bridge that went over this pond to Cinderella's castle. 

This wasn't a ride just a photo spot.  The kids really wanted to get in it.

This is the Bamboo shoot ride.  Leif was just a quarter of an inch to short so I stayed back with him and took pictures.  I love that Cal is holding her nose.  Their is a big splash at the end but they didn't really get wet.

Cal was so scared I thought she was gonna start crying.  This shows it good.  Its like a laugh and cry all in one.  I asked her if she like it and she said "YES!"  Then I said do you want to do it again with mom and she said "NO!"  HA HA HA

Safari ride!  Leif and I were trapped inside this cage with wild animals!

This is our hiking day.  New Hampshire really is beautiful.  Reminds me of the northwest.

These are the kids in their first set of clothes.  I'm glad I packed extra clothes in the hiking pack.  It came in useful!

This hike was called Diana's Baths.  It was very cool!  We were just at the lower portion but these pot holes went for a while up the hill.

Cal fell in the water and then Leif!  He didn't like it so much.  Cal thought it was fun.

We also took a Gondola ride up to the top of Cannon Mountain.  The furthest mountain ridge you see in this photo is actually in Canada.

Inside the Gondola.  They had two running and one was yellow and the other red.  They are famously called ketchup and mustard.  They had t-shirts in the gift shop.

This is part of our hike to Flume Gorge. 

This is one of my favorite hikes.  They had this wood path all through the gorge.

Us at the top of the Gorge.  Notice Leif's shirt.  I ran out of extras and I had one of Cal's tank tops.  But it was too big so I put this bandana around and through to keep the shirt on.  It worked and Leif could care less!

Near the end of the 2 mile Gorge hike.  The kids were tired, but had a lot of fun!  We stopped and had ice cream in the visitor center.  I have a ton of pictures from this trip so I hope this wasn't picture overload.  I really did narrow it down!