We spent 2 nights camping in Big Sur after the new year. It was a little cold and got dark early in the evening, but we had some beautiful weather during the day. We got a spot at Plaskett Creek Campground, which was completely full. We had another spot reserved at a campground we had been to before, but shortly before our trip, a spot opened up at Plaskett Creek.
The kids were immediately interested in climbing a tree that was by our campsite.
We did hot dogs and mac &cheese the first night and spaghetti the second night. And we did s'mores and hot chocolate both nights, of course!
Alex and the boys played a game in the tent, while I was sitting by the fire (and then snuggled down in a sleeping bag).
The dog is in the pen here, but she slept in the tent with us at night. Here she is curled up while the boys were playing games.
We drove to Point Lobos Reserve, for the sole purpose of going to Weston Beach again. We had taken a picture of Weston by "his" sign in 2011 and 2014, and I wanted another photo. It was a little annoying when we got there, because we were going to drive in and take turns sitting in the car with the dog (because no pets are allowed there). However, they wouldn't even let us drive in the park with her, even if she wouldn't be getting out of the car. So Alex had to stay with Kai, outside of the park, while the rest of us walked in there. On a side note, I ended up losing my blue hat somewhere in the park. We retraced our steps, but never found it. Maybe someone wanted a blue Nike hat.
The drive was really pretty - we stopped at a few look out points on the way back to our campground.
One of the highlights was stopping to see elephant seals, which are surprisingly entertaining despite them mostly just lying there on the beach. The boys kept waiting for them to spar - we didn't see much of anything, but they moved around a bit and we got to hear them bark. There was one of the males that did a pretty good job of clearing out the other males. They seemed to have their territory and didn't want any other males infringing on their space. Several baby seals had recently been born, so we saw several of the females by their babies.
Savannah likes singing Taylor Swift songs...
We had a good few days... but we think Jared and Owen got poison oak indirectly from the dog. We know they didn't get into it directly, but Kai might have gotten into it. Jared's rash went away quickly, but Owen's continued to get worse, until one morning he woke up with a swollen eye. He got some antibiotics from the doctor, because it had become infected. Poor Owen!
He is doing much better now and almost fully recovered.
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