Amazing Rock Landscapes!

Today we spent a good part of the late morning and early afternoon at Joshua Tree National Park. This time of year, the weather was perfect with the sun and breeze. The temperature was around 75 degrees and the park wasn’t too crowded with cars and visitors. We started off at the visitor center outside of the park to get information on the best things to do with little kids as well as have the girls get their National Park Passport stamped! We highly recommend having your kids when they’re little get a National Park Passport as a memory book to collect all the stamps from the different National Parks they visit. You get a stamp with the name of the park as well as the date that you visited. Plus they have a special themed stamp that relates to the park that you’re visiting. So for Joshua Tree National Park, the girls got to put a stamp of a Joshua tree in their passports. 

Since we had a late start to the day (which I absolutely love…slow mornings), we ate an early picnic lunch at Live Oak. Best place to have a picnic amongst all the rock formations/pilings. Then we headed off to Skull Rock where the girls could do some hiking and climbing on some big rocks/boulders. Another thing I highly recommend if you’re coming with kids of any age! Skull Rock is super fun to explore and easy for the entire family to do! There’s no set trails just walk and climb! We also got some amazing pictures! What’s even better is that Dave got time to take picture and get into his photographer artsy mode, which he hasn’t had the chance to do in awhile. Spending time on Skull Rock by far was the best thing about the day.  If you follow us on Instagram, I’ve posted some pictures and a short video about our day. 

Since we have another full day here at Joshua Tree, we decided to head back to our campground to spend time just hanging out and enjoying our campsite. It was a Friday afternoon and the campground was beginning to fill up with the weekend campers. There were definitely more families and we met some more people, even some friendly French Canadians (retired grandma/grandpa) from Montreal who have been traveling since January! They were our neighbors on one side. The other side, was another retired couple from Oregon who travel 8 months out of the year to get away from the rain and cold in Oregon. Then we noticed another young Asian family on the campground too! Say What?! That was pretty exciting and we hope to run into them on the campground and introduce ourselves! Anyways, thanks for reading everyone and following us here on the blog and on Instagram @embracingourlifejourney.  I realize that sometimes I can’t update quite as often on the blog due to limited wifi but am able to update on Instagram using my cell network and decided to update on Facebook from time to time. Thanks for your patience and joining us on this journey!

Our last Joshua Tree sunset