Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend we went down to Santa Cruz for our mostly annual Busath Camping Trip. It rained a little bit on the way down so we decided to wait a couple of days before braving the beach, but that didn't stop us from visiting the tide pools with sweatshirts. It's probably my favorite thing to do when we are down there and while we didn't see too much variety as far as the ocean life it was still fun to go and check them out. Katie found the one starfish, Lucas found a crab while the mussells and sea anemones were hard to miss.

On Saturday we headed down to the beach and had the best beach day that I can remember. The wind wasn't too bad, it was sunny and about 70 degrees...perfect.

Sunday was our last day there and we took the hike down through the redwoods, including Sam walking boot and all! This is the best hike ever because there's ice cream at the bottom, it's mostly downhill and we don't hike back, we drive. The ice cream was even from the shop that has my name so of course it was especially delicious. We even got to see what we decided was the first tree EVER...planted by Adam and everything.

The rest of the pictures are just some fun ones from around the camp site including Nick's homemade donuts and roasted bananas with peanut butter and chocolate chips.

We had so much fun camping and then continued our fun by having a BBQ at the Esslinger house on Memorial Day. We were excited to get in our Esslinger fix since they weren't able to come camping with us this year. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures but if you know Andi you can check some out on her blog. Hopefully everyone else had a great weekend too!