So we have less than two weeks before we start our journey towards the East Coast and we are not going to take Anson's piano cross country. He's going to store it at his mom's house, so the piano that she has is going to Anson's sister's house. We get the wonderful task of transferring them both and since Kathy lives pretty close to the beach we decided to take the opportunity to go camping one last time here the the Great NW! I'm not going to go into detail, but let me just say that it was a big pain to do and we still have a piano sitting downstairs.
We didn't get to the beach until about 6:30PM and started setting up camp. After we had everything set up we went to plug in something and it had the wrong kind of outlet. We found another site that had the right power source, packed everything back up in the trailer and moved. Instead of taking down the tent and setting it back up, Sr. and Jr. carried it up the hill and to our new site. It was pretty funny!
The pool was closed for cleaning that day which the kids were disappointed about but by the time we got done setting up camp they would have had only 45 minutes to swim before the pool closed. The plan for that night was for the kids to sleep in the tent, Sr to sleep in the trailer and because I didn't want to leave the boys alone, I was going to sleep in the tent with them. We were watching a movie in the trailer and I started getting tired so I went to go lay down. I can't remember why, but Sr. said that everybody is going to sleep in the trailer now (maybe he thought it would be too cold). So once again, we take everything out of the tent and switch it with stuff from the trailer. (food, microwave, tv, table, etc.). Once we were all situated the wood smell of the trailer (because it was new and hadn't been cured yet) started bothering Anson...but had bothered me all night. Needless to say, we didn't sleep so well. The boys had no problem though. The next morning I had a terrible migraine and no medicine. The "store" at the campground didn't open until 10AM, so I hopped in the front seat of the car, where it was quiet and dark and napped off and on until my medicine kicked in. I was then able to get up and shower and eat.
After lunch we headed down to Cape Kiwanda where the kids love to climb the sand dunes. We had a lot of fun but weren't prepared because we didn't bring food or drink. I would have loved to have stayed longer though.
That night we roasted marshmallows, made s'mores, and watched another movie outside by the fire pit. It was a great day and night.
We all slept better in the tent and packed up and headed for home by noon. Originally we planned on staying an extra day, but we ran out of food! We could have gone to Fred Meyer's in Tillamook but the kids wanted to go home....oh well. Sr. and I wanted to stay the extra day, but the kids won. All in all it was a nice trip.
7 comments:
that is a crazy camping trip. We have a 100 trails membership too, what campground were you at? you got some gorgeous pictures of the beach though!
This is one of our favorite 1000 Trails campgrounds. It's near Pacific City, Oregon. I think the actual city is called Cloverdale. It has a walking trail from the campground to the beach, (on the other side of the dunes from where we were), but we drove a few miles to Cape Kiwanda. (Better dunes and view) It was beautiful there like always.
They also have an indoor pool, which is great for the Northwest weather!
We had a reunion near Lincoln city and the beaches were gorgeous! We will have to go to that campground soon. I love it when they have indoor pools, my girls are addicted to the pool.
The first part sounds a lot like how our trips go. What happened to the RV? Great pictures.
Okay. Just read your other post and saw that you sold it. what happened to driving it cross country? Don't tell me, you posted that somewhere on here too. I guess I've got to do more reading.
We are still driving cross country for our big move, but not in an RV. We'll be driving our Suburban and tow behind our trailer to transport our screen printing stuff and just the bare necessities.
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