The first weekend of May we packed up our minivan full of sleeping bags and firewood and headed to Memorial Park in the Santa Cruz mountains for some camping with our dear friends, the Jarmans.
There were a good number of banana slugs to be found.
Everything was a little wet and a little cold, but it was beautiful! Deep dark greens and browns and earthy smells....mmmmm.
Because what is camping if not for the smores.
Smore station all set up and ready to go!
Getting ready for bed with their glowsticks/light sabers.
Snuggly sweet sisters.
Getting the morning fire roaring with Daddy-o
English muffin egg sandwiches for breakfast! Sooo delicious!
Our campsite was so beautiful! So quiet, hardly any other campers (everyone was afraid of the rain, but we won that bet!), and so much for the kids to explore and play.
After we cleaned out of our campsite in the morning we went exploring - hunting banana slugs, climbing tree stumps, finding cool sticks, ya know... all the good stuff.
A banana slug with a banana.....
We found this great little stream that we played in and skipped rocks across.
Big hallowed out redwood tree trunk! So huge!
good one, Evee......
The gnarly roots of that huge tree!
"This is our new house...."
It's unfortunate that California is so ugly, ya know?
Great place, great friends, great times.
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