Wednesday, May 27, 2009

First Annual Adams Camping Extravaganza

Monday we drove down to South Beach (near Newport) for a few days of camping with Brian's family. We met down on the beach and the weather was perfect!

We couldn't check into our yurts until 4pm... and Sam was checking the time. He was so excited to see what the yurts were all about.


We finally checked in... this is a YURT!

The boys wanted to sleep together but that lasted all of about two minutes... then Ben climbed back onto the futon.

Sam found two FUZZY caterpillars and was so excited.

Helping Brian...
Buddies
Our site was right next to the playground. We spent A LOT of time there!
Brian and Char hanging out at the beach...
Heather and Maddox

Caden LOVED the beach!

Sam and Maddox making "soup"...
Ben was quite the little camper... and entertainer.

Lots of bike riding...
Lacey and Craig
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Touch tank at the Science Center... it was also feeding time for the octopus - the kids thought that was pretty cool.

Ben spent most of day on his bike - hence the helmet...
Sam didn't want his picture taken...

The first two days there was NO wind. Brian had to run Sam down the beach to keep his kite in the air!
Ben hanging out.

If you look closely you can see Sam's kite WAY up in the air. It was perfect weather for flying kites today. We had it up about 300 feet... and used a shovel and stick to anchor it in the sand while we built sand castles... the wind got a hold of it and off it went down the beach. I took off after it but wasn't fast enough! Ben talked about it the whole way home... how the wind "broke" the kite.
Brian had to teach today so he headed back to Portland last night around 5pm. The boys and I stayed to play and got home this afternoon - they were wiped out and in bed EARLY. I thought for sure they would sleep on the drive home...NOPE! We had a great time and the boys did really well. Looking forward to next year!

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