Day: August 9, 2016

    Redwoods! and Santa Cruz!

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    We camped at the Henry Cowell Redwoods Campground from July 18th-22nd – Monday through Friday. I love camping with my family. They seem to have it down to an art form. My parents plan all of the meals and bring the food. We make one big kitchen area. Mom makes a cooking and cleaning schedule so everyone knows when it’s their turn to help. And then we just relax and game and chat and build fires and enjoy the trees and beauty.

    Tracie brought a play area for the babies! Genious.

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    Dinner on the first night and then fun around the campfire:

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    Cali and Rose slept with Maddy, Lilly, Ella and Brinlee in the girl tent. Benji and Packer slept in with Gavin, Porter and Jaydn:

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    Tiago and Millie woke me up at 6 or 7 every morning. We played in the dirt and put up the Slackoline for a few hours before we got told to take it down.

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    We spent Tuesday at SEACLIFF BEACH. We had a blast:

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    Benji stayed in the water for MOST of the day. He and the boys his age were having a blast just playing in the waves.

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    Everything is FUN with cousins: and when Uncles help build drift wood forts:

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    Back at camp: swinging and playing Assets and getting really dirty:

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    On Wednesday we went and spent the day at the Sand Dunes and Beach:

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    Tiago stayed close to the snack box and was very happy. The lifeguard came to warn us about the under toe. We made some mermaids and found Ray hiding in the Can Jam.

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    We had a big SPIKEBALL tournament: Ben and Joel won!

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    It was a windy day but by the afternoon it was perfect to get in and swim and search for shells:

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    Wednesday Night was a family TALENT SHOW! Some of teh kids did a few skits. Benji and Jaydn did card tricks, Ray played Twinkle Twinkle on his mouth horn, the girls danced adn drew pictures and Cali and I did a skit with Liz and Ella.

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    Thursday was our chill day. We stayed in camp all morning:

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    Then we went to the Redwood Hike and saw some amazing Trees:

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    Then we hurried to Downtown Santa Cruz and ate at Pizza My Heart:

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    And we got to the Beach Boardwalk at 5pm to get our unlimited ride passes! We went non stop from 5-11pm. Starting with the Carousel that we loved as kids because you can throw rings at the clown!

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    Log Ride before it got cold: Yes, Millie went on it with Sean! and Ray went with me and hid his head the whole time!

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    We spent a lot of time on kid rides cause we have a lot of kids:

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    Mom took Millie on a LOT of rides:

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    We did sneak in a couple of the bigger rides and of course the Roller Coaster with Pops!

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    Ben found his dream arcade:

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    At the end of the night Raymond and some of the kids rode on these cars about 20 times in a row!

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    And then we all went home exhausted:

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    Friday was pack up camp day: And CHRiSTY’s Birthday! And DRIVE all day to get up to Oroville DAY!

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    Braden leaves for his Mission to Brazil!

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    Next up we drove to California to say goodbye to our nephew Braden and to camp with the family! Braden gave a great talk and we all crashed at their place for Saturday night and Sunday and said Goodbye Monday morning. He is in the Missionary Training Center in Sao Paulo Brazil (CTM). Ben and I are excited for him to learn our language and our people 🙂

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