We ended up having two different camping trips to the beach this year. That wasn't intended but it worked out okay. Our latest camping trip involved Grayland Beach State Park for a couple of nights, and on to Cape Disappointment State Park for four more nights. We went camping with Grandma and Papa G and all except for one day we got pretty lucky with the weather!
This is the observation tower in Westport, we had a great time wandering the shops there and climbing around on the jetty.
Daddy and Papa were on the lookout for sea life and managed to find a hermit crab for the kids to check out!
We packed up Sunday morning and headed off to Cape Disappointment (our favorite Washington state park by far). The kids took every opportunity to ride around in Papa's truck, Dillon in the very back and Kayda buckled into her own seat in the very front (don't worry it was only around the park). Dillon loved spending time outside by the campfire, Kayda preferred "RVing" and playing games in Grandma and Papa's big trailer. The kids had a great time with a few long pieces of driftwood we found, they entertained themselves with those for hours over the course of our visit.
We spent an afternoon in Long Beach, on the board walk and browsing a few shops. Poor little Dillon got carsick so didn't enjoy the first little while of the visit.
Kayda has decided that when we're taking pictures of her she must pose, and for whatever reason those poses NEVER involve a smile... we'll have to work with her on that!
After Long Beach we headed to the day use area which is called Waikiki beach, we found that quite amusing. Papa spent the first little while exploring before coming back over and playing in the waves with the kids.
Daddy was busy building a sand castle "For the kids to destroy". Eventually he got out in the water too.
On our trip to California Daddy made Kayda a mermaid tail. She remembered it and demanded to be turned into a mermaid again.
Meanwhile papa was out in the waves (can you see his head?)
Back at Benson Beach (The main beach for the campground)
Grandma got very comfortable!
This day was pretty windy so we were worried about the kids getting cold. They did, when they got out of the water. They found some pools of water formed when the tide went out, with the sun out the water was actually pretty warm and they spent a good amount of time running up and down the pools and jumping into the deeper sections!
We went up to Northhead lighthouse.
Then Grandma, Papa, Daddy, Kayda and Dillon hiked up to Cape Disappointment light house (Mommy wasn't brave enough to try it 7.5 months pregnant).
Kayda saw another little girl riding her bike without training wheels so she decided that she wanted to try. It didn't last long but she tried a couple of separate times. Dillon actually spent a good deal of time riding around and around and around the little camping loop. He LOVED being able to ride his bike whenever he wanted.
We hiked up a short, steep hike to see where one of the big guns and a bunker were (It's also where Lewis and Clark saw the Pacific for the first time). The kids had a great time playing in the bunker.
The mosquitoes were REALLY bugging Daddy.
We took a picture in this exact same spot with the four of us three years ago when we were here. So naturally we had to do it again, except this time I guess it's five of us??? Not that you can SEE the baby. Hank was there too but you can't see him in the picture.
This is the Cape Disappointment lighthouse which they hiked up to.
We went out on the North Jetty. The kids had a great time climbing around on the rocks again. I even managed to climb around with them again. Grandma and Papa saw an otter, unfortunately it was just a brief flash so the kids didn't see it but they did get to see a porpoise!
We headed home today, Kayda got to stay out another night with Grandma and Papa so Dillon is getting some special Mommy and Daddy time.
Totally unrelated but important none the less, our newest nephew (Brett) was born today!
