A Camping We Will Go

Day One:
I woke up Monday morning and decided that Jack and I should have a camping trip by the beach.  I  had been planning on taking him but I hadn't made resevations yet so I decided that we should just go for it.  I reserved a camp site for $38 dollars per night.  That is paying for the dirt that I put my tent on, and the toilet that I use. 

Packing up the supplies we will need, tent, chairs, cooler, swim suits, etc...Heading out!  Jack is pumped the sun is shining.  Life is good.  As we head down the road, in Uncle David's Ute, I'm thinking to myself, this is going to be SO much fun, I haven't camped in a long time.  Yay me!  Bonus that we heard Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie on the radio too!  They play the best music here! 

Stop at the grocery store to stock up on camping essentials.. (Read...Chips, Sandwich Stuff, Soda, Cereal)
Get to our camp ground.  Deep Breath, I can set a tent up.  I can do it!  3 LONG hours later, a couple nasty words, a few bags of chips for Jack and here she is people.....is it a beauty! 

Our two man tent, Momma's Chair and Jack's Chair.  PS - When camping be sure to pack something to help you put the stakes in the ground.  A hammer would work, I improvised with a large cinder block borrowed from the wise RV couple beside us. 

Of course Jack brought his trusty traveling companion, Rowdy.  Rowdy has been lots of places, that will be another post but...Jack had to take a picture of Rowdy in the tent. 

Mister Man enjoying some chips and salsa in the back of the truck since we didn't have a table to eat on.  We are roughing it people! 

This is where we went to eat dinner, it is beautiful and I love all the people bustling around!

Not sure if you can see but Jack loved feeding the seagulls.  They were swarming him and he would just giggle!  It was sweet! Then as we were leaving I saw the sign that said, Please Do Not Feed the Birds.  Opps!

The first night passed with out too many major events.  Jack kept whispering, "Mommy what was that?  Did you hear that?"  I was slightly freaked myself and trying to stay calm.  I didn't bring any weapons.  BUT...daylight came and we survived.   

Up and at em. Breakfast and coffee with the trusty neighbors who informed me that it would rain tonight and rain hard and I should think about putting a tarp up over our tent.  TARP??  I didn't bring one of those!  Nah...it's perfectly sunny.  It'll be fine!  Let's get suncreened and off to the beach!

We played around on the beach and Jack loved playing with all the dogs that we saw stolling along the beach after their owners.  He didn't last too long in the sun.  So off to the street festival.  They had the roads closed and all kinds of street acts.  People juggling, musicians, etc...it was cool. 

Jack wanted to take a picture with this statue but this is as close as he would get! HA!

I enjoyed a few cocktails at the markets and the bartender made Jack a "Fire Engine" (Sprite and Cherry).  This was after someone came by while we were in the bathrooms and disposed of his chocolate ice cream.  He flipped OUT and the bartender provided him this as collateral damage.

Back to the camp site....It's about 5:00, starting to get a little dark.  Slightly windy.  What are we going to do if it rains.  Sleep in the truck??  SO after conversing with the RV couple, I decided to go to the office and see if they had any bungalows/chalets left for the night.  Thank you Jesus, they do.  We'll take it.

Down comes the rain, up comes the tent and in we go to our warm comfy chalet!  Jack says, "Wow, Mom, there's a TV and everything!"

I'm so thankful that I decided to get the room because it stormed.  Not like it storms in OK but it rained really hard and it was windy.  We would have been miserable in a tent.  Well, I would have been okay but I was thinking of Jack.... :)

I was too busy packing and unpacking to take pictures.

Glad to be home (at the Gallup's). 

I think I'll leave the camping to the boys.

Happy Trails,

Kim & Jack