A nice trip to Calistoga

A few weeks ago our family spent a nice simple weekend in Calistoga. We stayed at a wonderful place called the Calistoga Spa Hot Springs (the link seems to be down right now). Kitchenette inside, barbecue outside, three pools (one kiddie warm, one cold, one adult warm) and a big hot tub. All water is naturally heated by the springs.

Just down the way is a great coffee shop called the Calistoga Roastery, yummy coffee and pastry, fun place to hang out. Besides swimming, swimming, swimming, the only other thing we really did was go to a playground and visit the Petrified Forest, really cool petrified redwoods about fifteen minutes out of town.

We skipped the Old Faithful Geyser - we saw it last time, and it costs a lot of money, and really there isn't much to see.

But I would have to say the highlight of the visit was when we discovered the fire house, and Michael was allowed to go in and visit all of the fire trucks. My goodness, was he in heaven. He wandered amongst them and climbed up them, round and round and round, for a good half hour.



Here's a cute video of him in the fire house



You can go here to see all the photos from our visit.