Friday, September 25, 2009

The Belated Post of Labor Day Camping


Our first... and last ... evening at Brooking.


Stark LOVES camping and the beach. This trip was just as much for him as it was for us.

We had foil dinners on the first night, so good. You may notice the "cocoa" pot, my favorite camping supply.

So lots of long stories short: we got rained out of our Brookings campsite. We new it was going to rain but didn't quite expect this. It was great, it added to the fun memories and we explored a lot more because of it.

One of the days it was rainy and stormy. I was thinking our trip was ruined, Chris was thinking this was the perfect day.... to fly a kite of course. Chris had a lot of fun learning to fly his new kite and loved every windy moment. We have even flown it on a few evenings here at the park.

We moved on and camped along the Smith river about 15 miles inland. We had lots of trees, dry weather, and lots of room for Stark to run around but we still didn't want to miss out on our planned activites. We drove back to the coast and had a fun day at the aquariem and the Trees of Mystery.


While everyone else was surfing I found these guys.
Oh yeah.

Back the the aquariem. Chris pet a shark, but never really would take his eye off it.
And she was there too, at the family friendly aquariem. On to the Trees of Mystery.
We stopped at this beach along hwy 101 then went back for lunch later. This one's for you Juliana. Chris wasn't wild about the idea of eatting random weeds from the forest but Nic and Ali liked them.



Smith River
It was a great trip.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Trick or Treat?

So as usual I'm very excited about Halloween but I have a problem. I really want to go trick or treating and I have no kids to dress up. I've offered to steal other people's kids but no one will go for it and I think following random children around a neighborhood is just creepy. My other option would be dressing up Stark but I still don't think I would get any candy for it. So I think my last hope will be to decorate the outside of my house to try to lure the children here. I don't think I'll have any luck convincing Chris to dress up just so we can sit around our house and eat candy and watch a "scary" movie. Uh, what to do.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Laptop Down

Our laptop is currently out of commission. I've been anxious to blog about our exciting life of camping and the fair but it is really boring without pictures so you'll have to wait.