One great thing about this trip is Drew was on 2 weeks of assessments at school, so he was out by noon. We hit the road shortly after (I took the day off work) and were completely set-up before 3:30pm. This is how Drew spent most of the afternoon...
... playing with his army guy reading "I Spy" books. And I mean he did this for hours!
We on the other hand sat around drinking... See Grammy and Dave are chillin' outside Grammy and GrampC's "house".
Around 5:30 that evening we heard a loud "pop" and then a few minutes later sirens and everyone at the campsite started walking through the church right next to our site and out to the main road. It seems there was a car accident, which caused a transformer explosion, and the transformer (or the accident) sparked the fast moving grass fire. There was talk about evacuations from the homes on the opposite side of the street from the campground.
Thankfully, no evacuations and we were able to continue our weekend. We were without power until around 2am. At least that's when I went to the bathroom and saw lights were back on.
No fire was going to dampen our weekend...
The next morning our friends Amber and Greg and their boys (ages 2 and 4) came up as did Ms. Stephanie and Brian and the boys (ages 7 and 6).
The adults enjoyed play time too... Dave and Brian trying to beat us at ladder ball..
Stephanie and I...
The kids wanted to watch, but keep cool.
L-R: Mason, Andrew, Drew, Troy
So I had my Dad taking pictures of us playing, with our camera. He wanted to get artsy and stood behind our area, when a ball came crashing into my camera... see a ball coming toward us?
... I guess that was the shot before. It was the "blue balls" that hit the camera breaking our zoom. So we've had 2 cameras in about 2 or 3 years meet a similar fate thanks to Dave. (I just had to throw that out there, because I won't let Dave buy a DSLR the way we fly through cameras).
Troy and Drew the next morning hanging out.
Drew and Andrew preparing for future girl watching...
The younger crew eating...
On Sunday at Drake's Beach they do an annual Sand Castle Competition, so we drove out there to let the kids run around and to check things out. Here are a few of my favorites...
Here's Evan checking out the Lion.
He was so cute, he saw a bear, a lion and a dinosaur. He really wanted to find a crocodile, but sadly no crocodiles were to be found.
After the beach we went out to the Oyster Farm to get some fresh oysters for appetizers. We grill them, none of that raw crap.
While we were there, the lady inside pulled the boys aside and was talking to them about the one predator for oysters.. crabs. Then she sent them to the water on a "crab hunt"
The only crabs we found were small dead ones. So our hunt was unsuccessful. But the boys had a great time searching.
Later that night we were treated to some beautiful scenery... including a double rainbow.
Drew was so worn out he didn't even make it to the tent to fall asleep.
It was a great time, and hopefully we didn't scare away our new camping buddies or our old ones - I didn't get any pictures of the "older crew" that was with us stocking the group with lemoncello.
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