Showing posts with label Camping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camping. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Hyrum Goes Camping


We took Hyrum camping at Manresa State Beach.  A nice little camping place, though you have to carry all your stuff to your campsite and park your car a distance further away.


But it was perfectly positioned to visit....
BOARDWALK!  
HAHAHAHA.  You thought this would be more camping pictures, didn't you! But no! We tricked you into more Boardwalk pictures.  MWAHAHA!  HA! Ha.  Aha ha. Ahem.

Well, it's true we camped and had lots of fun at that, but I forgot to take pictures of it.  I guess it got lost in the making-pancakes-over-a-fire-with-only-an-old-rickety-skillet-and-blue-plastic-spatula hullabaloo.  Also, the only-logs-of-wood-but-no-tinder-or-kindling-and-no-using-fall-wood-allowed-so-use-a-pocketknife-to-make-some hullabaloo.  Also, the stop-reading-get-back-to-work-Hyrum hullabaloo.  Also, the Kyle-showering-three-babies-in-a-coin-operated-shower-while-Mom-makes-fire-pancakes hullabaloo.  And the why-did-we-bring-marshmallows-if-no-one-wants-to-cook-them hullabaloo.  There was an awful lot of hullabaloo going on at that campsite.

Friday we went down to boardwalk early.  Early enough it wasn't open for business so we went down to the pier and looked at sea lions. 




  Vivian was a little less than impressed with the sea lions.

There was also starfish clinging to the pier.

Here's an albino one.  Awesome.

Then we rode rides.





Camping in Nevada

...was cold. But fun.
This tent?  Yeah, we slept in it once.

Rye Patch Reservoir, Lovelock, NV
 
One fun thing about the wilderness is that it is dirty.  But it's dirt with no consequences!  Dig, dig dig, my little gophers.  Dig to your heart's content.



It rained. 


 Fortunately, playing in puddles is also fun.





Yay! Camp food is fun!

Also, hiking.  For fun.  Because when you camp, you go on long walks to look at wilderness.  For fun.  So I am told.





Also, driving home is fun!

But not for everybody.