Tilden Park

We discovered a really cool regional park in Berkeley last week.  It's just so awesome when you realize there is something really lovely basically in your backyard.  That's how this felt.  A quick 30 minute drive and we were up a foggy mountain in another world.  What brought us to Tilden was a little farm that I'd read about where kids could feed cows and pigs and goats and chickens and an attached nature center to learn about all sorts of plant and animal life.  Natalie especially can't get enough of farms and the four leggeds that live there so I knew we had to go.

 Come to find out the little farm (aptly named The Little Farm) was just one of the sights worth seeing there.  There were trails and picnic tables, a carousel (totally random thing to come across in an otherwise very wooded, natural landscape) a steam train and a lake.  We decided to save the train for a day when Daddy could join us but tackled the rest and had an amazing time.

We drove there in a very thick sea of fog.  I actually don't think I've ever driven in fog so heavy.  Of course, the kids thought it was the greatest.  While I could tell we were winding up a mountain as we neared the park, I had no idea until we drove home that that mountain was, in fact, quite high and that off one side of the road was a cliff making this view possible. 

Well, hello, Bay! 

Great day.  Can't wait to go back and ride the train!