Camping

A quick snooze on the beach.Digging for treasure.

My man with the huge jellyfish!

M with a smaller jellyfish.

Brothers on rocks.

Sleep time.

Story time around the campfire with Queen Teri.

Hangin' out.

M loves to climb trees.

B made a mess eating his s'mores.

The fun was in charring the marshmallows.

M and B (with Jeremy), having hot chocolate for the first time.

M had been asking to go camping all year, so we bought all the camping accoutrement and took the boys out in the wilderness twice this summer. By wilderness, I mean State Parks with bathrooms and showers, but it's as much of the wilderness as M are going to see if I'm along for the ride.

We went to New Brighton State Beach near Santa Cruz for our first trip at the end of May. The boys were so excited to play in the tent and jump on our air mattresses and they loved spending the days at the beach. They also enjoyed the camp fire and, of course, the hot dogs and hamburgers. Interestingly, they didn't seem to care for the roasted marshmallows all that much. They enjoyed roasting them, but not eating them...weird.

For our second camp-out, we went with the Judin's to Bodega Bay in Sonoma in the middle of June. M and B loved going with their friends and had hot chocolate for the first time. We found a beach that had a stream leading to the ocean that was just swamped with deceased jelly fish. The boys and the male parents from both families spent a good part of the second day hunting up jellyfish and they had a great time. Enjoy the pictures.