Both kids were thrilled when we pulled into our campsite and it was surrounded by a dozen fantastic climbing trees! When we were at campsite, they spent more time up in the trees than they did down on the ground, I think.
We arrived around 7:00, so the first night basically consisted of getting the camp set up. Then we had some hot chocolate, went to look at the beach (which was just a short walk from our site), doused the fire and went to bed. It was after 10:00pm when we crawled into our sleeping bags. Ryan & Abby were so excited they had a difficult time settling down, despite the late hour.
The next day the kids and I were up very early...like 5:15am! I tried to keep them quiet, so we went for a walk to the bathroom. Then Mommy tried starting a fire since it was pretty chilly, but due the dampness of everything (I'm sure it had nothing to do with my general ineptitude at starting fires!), I wasn't successful. Finally, I broke out the food and started breakfast. I guess Daddy would just have to get up if he wanted a hot breakfast!
The first evening while we were setting up camp, three boys from a nearby site came and wanted to play. The five of them had a fun time climbing trees, fighting pretend enemies (it was decided they would have pretend enemies since no one wanted to be the bad guys), and bushwhacking through wastelands.
After breakfast and cleanup, we headed to the beach for a walk and some geocaching. There was an awesome fort, complete with pirate flag, that someone had made from driftwood. I was a little nervous about letting them go inside it, but after taking a closer look, it was pretty sturday and looked like it had actually been there quite a while.
We walked about a mile up the beach geocaching and finding shells along the way. The wind was galing and it was pretty chilly, but we still enjoyed the walk and the scenery. Ryan stopped a few times to make a sand angel as well as inspecting dead crabs, broken sand dollars and shells, and any other treasure he saw lying in the sand.
We walked the mile back toward our campground, and then went back to our site to have lunch. After our lunch break, we drove Daddy down to the jetty so he could do some fishing. Though we brought all of our fishing rods, the jetty was just too dangerous to have the kids around so Daddy fished solo.
While Daddy was fishing we headed back to the beach. It was 65 degrees with terrible gusting wind, so the kids stayed out of the water. But they had fun digging and playing in the sand for hours. Finally, Daddy returned and we all went back to camp for dinner.
The next day was Ryan's Day, and Ryan got to make most of the decisions for the day!
We woke up our last morning at camp, had breakfast and then rode our bikes to the sand dune again. The kids played with the only other child there, dug in the sand (guess a kid can never get enough of that), and scrambled up and ran down the dune numerous times.
Once they tired of the dune, we rode our bikes to a geocache that was located near the jetty. The kids had a blast climbing rocks and driftwood while Mommy and Daddy hunted for the cache. Then it was time to go and pack up camp. It took longer than usual this time, I think because of all the sand. Everything had to be shook out or swept or something. We managed to get it all back into the van, with some help from the kids. Mostly they did some final climbing in the trees, begging me to take a picture of them in each one! On our way home we couldn't resist one last stop at the Tillamook Creamery for a final ice cream cone...YUMMY!
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