Oh but we forgot to include our little forest neighbors who camped with us, ate with us, hung out in our cars... Yeah, these guys:
Cute, yes. But pests for sure. It was entertaining to watch Joe chase them away from our cooking area on occasion. And it was exciting to try to get one out of Ruth's minivan. But we had no problem leaving these guys at the campground when we left on Saturday! lol
After Debi left, we headed down to MacKerricker beach to watch the waves and play on the rocks/beach.
Notice the seals on the rocks behind the kids? We watched some of them playing in the waves, too. Cute!
We decided to walk up the beach a little ways. Some of us took the high road:
While others took the low road:
There were some people flying kites there. They let the kids fly one and even gave one to Jared!
There was some other excitement going on around this time, too. I don't have the video of it yet, that is on David's camera, but I can give you the run down. Cadi was down by the waves and lost a flip flop. She started to go after it, but incase you couldn't tell from the pics, this is NOT a beach where you can go into the water! She was about a foot away from it, but a huge wave was about to crash on her and she had to make a quick decision. At the last moment, she chose to live, at the encouragement of Ryan and Tom who were yelling at her to come back! While, she was glad to be alive, and I think she realizes that it was the best deicision, she was absolutely crushed to have lost her "favorite flip flop". That would explain this photo:
I'm just glad that she lost it at the end of our trip and not the beginning since we were wearing our flip flops into the showers. ;)
After lunch, David and Teresa took Cadi and Esther to see Glass Beach. Rori and Jared were napping and the rest of us were being lazy, so we hung out at camp and played Phase 10. Ruth was ahead the entire time, until Ryan swept in at the last moment and won it! He's such a meanie. So much for being a gentleman. ;) It was fun though!
After the Glass Beach group came back and the little kids woke up, we went back to MacKerricker Beach to check out the tide pools since the tide was on it's way out. We drove over to the end of the beach and walked out to the pointe where there are tons of rocks and tide pools.
We found some really cool stuff! Like these two crabs fighting:
These starfish:
Tom showing the kids a hermit crab:
And then it was back to camp for dinner. All of the siblings not living at home took turns being in charge of meals. The other three boys contributed by helping with clean up. Here is the dish crew at work, they did a great job:
And then we had our final campfire, with lots of S'mores and Wiifms:
I was sad it was our last night, we had such a great week together! We definitely want to go camping together again! :)
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