Tide Pools Are Not For Swimming...

I feel like the slacker of the family, seeing as how both Andi and Katie have already posted pictures of the annual Santa Cruz trip and they both have little kids. As most of you know every year my family heads up to Santa Cruz to go camping and every year it gets a little bit harder to convince my dad it's a good idea. This year was a bit different for me. Not only did I leave for the day on Saturday to go to school but I also had a boy sleeping in my tent with me! Thanks to my work we had our very own tent too. Nick wasn't able to make it up until Friday night. I didn't want to wait so I went up on Thursday with my family and spent Friday at the beach with Mason playing some wave tag.

Nick spent his first real day up there hiking with everyone up to the Observation Deck and having as much fun at the beach as they could on an overcast day.

Hiking to the Observation Deck and stealing Sam and I's
fish face pose...

Sunday we went to the tide pools and had a lot of fun looking at the mussells, star fish, crabs and sea anemones. We even convinced Lucas to touch a star fish! We had a lot of fun and I was glad that Nick and I actually got to spend a least one day together. Unfortunately, and I'm fearing it might become a trend, I got sick with the flu the night that we got home. I'm glad it waited until after all the camping though. Hey, it gave me another day off of work!

Touching a star fish at the "tadpoles"

Looking for something good...


Jill and I at the beach on Friday

Tide pools.

Hey its a male plane...

Marianne & Jenny May

Bubba

Sam and Jenny May Hittin The Bottle...

The one time i didnt take a serious picture and Marianne does

Sam, Bubba, Me and Grow

Sam Shoving a Brownie cookie and a churro in at the same time now thats talent.

Last night we we had a Cinco De Mayo celebration. It was a ton of fun. Marianne, myself, Jenny May, Sam, Bubba and Grow watched The Three Amigos. Jenny, Sam and Bubba had never seen it before so we all got a kick out of it. We also had a lot of beer (the root verity) chips and salsa and some really good quesadillas. Despite one casualty it was a really good night.