Camping on the Beach

Well, I think it's about time that I blogged about our camping trip in California.

We had planed on going out to visit Robert's brother Cookie and we all decided to go camping on the beach near Santa Cruz.

The first night we got there we hiked over to the beach and just walked around. Then we went and dinner in Santa Cruz and walked along the boardwalk.

On Friday we spent most of the day at the beach. Robert and Gina spent some time looking for shell and sand dollars. We all found a ton of them.

Cookie took spent most of our time at the beach napping, not a bad idea.

Arrie took her friend Amanda with her. They had a blast.

All the kids spent part of the day making sand castles.

Always a great beach activity.

Of course they all spent some time jumping in the waves.

Aaron loved running in and out of the ocean.

Ryan needed a rest so he took a rest on Arrie.

What's better than a sand blanket. It was a little cold that day.

It is a little dirty to use a sand blanket.

We went back to the beach after dinner to watch the sunset.

Arrie was so excited to have an opportunity to get her school clothes shopping done in California so she could have different choices then at home. On Monday we spent seven hours shopping. It was exhausting!

We had a great time but it's nice to be home.