I forgot to mention the fact that Jacki and I had gone to the grocery store on the first day.  We walk up and she says "we should both get shopping carts".  And I’m thinking to myself "we’re not gonna get that much stuff are we?".  Sure enough, both of us FILL up our carts and they’re overflowing with groceries.  We both check out separately only to find out that we had spent within cents of each others totals!  We spent almost $400 on groceries!

Day 2 began waking up to screaming kids…not ours but our neighbors in the next camp site!  Seemed like the crack of dawn when they started up, fighting with each other at the top of their lungs…."Get off me!…No you get off me…Your underwear are on my pillow…You’re bugging me get away from me!" and with only a tent and about 25′ to separate us from them…you can just imagine!   So all of us were pretty much AWAKE at that point.

Andy had bought this handy coffee maker thing that you put directly over the camp stove so we got that started, only to find out that we had only brought 2 coffee cups.  Luckily I had brought this huge ladle looking thing so I drank my coffee out of that! LOL 

We decided to make a BIG breakfast consisting of bacon, hashbrowns and scrambled eggs.  Well, the bacon took a LONG time to cook because it had to be done in batches so it ended up taking like 45 minutes to cook the bacon.  Then came the hashbrowns which were taking forever and we didn’t figure out that we should have done those in batches for like another half hour.  So finally one batch of hashbrowns were done I go to hold a plate out for Andy to put the browns on and the plate folds in half and I dropped it on the ground!  Instead of getting a spatula and scooping it back up and stupid me used my hand and burned it in the process!   Nobody ate those browns BTW.   Another half hour and the next batch of hashbrowns were done!  Then onto the eggs…luckily those only took a few minutes. 

By the time breakfast was done cooking…I think it was like 2 1/2 hours after we started, we were all STARVING!  We scarfed it all up and then made sandwiches to take to the beach.

As I said it was a long trek to the beach so we packed up everything and set out for an entire day at the beach. 

The girls were in the water as soon as we got there and it was windy as could be so they got really cold, really fast!  Bella ended up falling asleep all wrapped up in her towel and hunkered down under the umbrella.  Carey and Andy were taking turns flying Carey’s stunt kite that he had gotten.

We got back to camp and felt a little overexposed I think!  It was a long day at the beach.  We cooked steaks over the campfire that night and they were yummy!  Although everything tastes good when you’re camping.

Here’s some more pics from the trip.

Jacki and Andy….aren’t they cute?

Here’s the girls trying to wipe their feet off with baby wipes…those things were lifesavers!

This is one I’ll probably be scapping, she’s not smiling in it but the clarity and the lighting of the picture I just love!

Here’s Bella flying her kite and actually smiling at me…FINALLY!

Hey look….it’s one of those species of scrapbookers!

Smoke makes really great sunsets!

To be continued….