Sunday, August 23, 2009

One last summer fling! Brian and the kids started school last week, but my school starts tomorrow, so it's still summer vacation for me. We made it a weekend at Pismo Beach. I'm going to have to make these photos a screen saver, or tape them to my notebooks, to get me through the next nine months!
Nate playing chicken with the waves.
Jacob enjoying the cool water.
Mom and Jacob, wave jumping.
My little beach bum!
Jacob showing Dad how to jump waves.
Jacob: Nate, what are you digging, a cave?
Nate: No, I'm digging a hole!
The tide came up and filled up Nate's hole. He was splashing the water out, but the tide was gaining. Then my little engineer decided to make a river to allow the water to flow away from his hole.
Then we did a little bit of letter boxing. We forgot to take our letterboxing kits with us, so we had to improvise. Being a teacher's car, we found a stamp pad in it, lol. So we left a finger print caterpillar, and our letterboxing info.
This box was called "Three Leaves." Can anyone identify this three leaved plant that want abundant in the area? Aimee?
The thing I love about letterboxing is finding place that you might otherwise not know exist. This park was one of those gems. We did not find the box, probably due to construction in the area it should have been. But, the views were worth the stroll.
There was a plaque in the park that said to close your eyes and view the scenery through the eyes of a child. Well, we didn't have to close our eyes, we had Nate. Who kept pointing out dragonflies and lizards.
And other creepy crawly things.

It was a great weekend. Very refreshing. Now, I'm ready to tackle grad school!

3 comments:

Brandi said...

Looked like it was fun :) Last time my family went to Pismo, it was stressful though. I personally was in a bad mood, started out bad and ended worse. Next time I plan on having fun <3

Brandi said...

Looked like it was fun :) Last time my family went to Pismo it was stressful. I personally was in a bad mood, started out bad and ended worse. Next time I plan on having fun <3 ** Had a typo lol

sportzmom said...

What is letter boxing? Is that the same thing as geo caching? Sounds like a good time! The rocket is awesome, but does go pretty fall. We've had some dramatic crashes through trees--the thing has held up though, so I'm impressed. An open field is probably a good idea. You might be able to do it at school! It's a blast!