Pismo Beach Camping and sandhill fun

Friday April 25, 08

It's a beautiful day and we are all excited to camp 2-nights at the Oceano Campground at Pismo State Beach. We met up with the Bienert's at their home in San Ramon and caravan(ed?) down the coast. The Bienert's got a new trailer and the Thomas' (us) got the Eurovan that we were gonna sleep in for the first time.

I think somewhere in the back I had stowed Kai with the rest of the camping gear? After a rest stop and about 4+ hours of driving we made it to the campsite and met up with the Greger family who were doing their first camp trip of the year also.


Kai holds Lukas' hand as we walk the trail between the campsite to Pismo Beach. Lukas was already missing his mommy and kept looking back for her (they were still setting up their trailer).


The boys got pulled over by the park ranger and were given a citation (of park stickers to wear).


As I was taking this breathtaking photo of the beach and silhouette of the boys...


...suddenly the tide comes in and gets us running! Kai gets his pants leg wet but poor Lukas trips (the first of several this weekend) and gets soaked. My pants are also wet from pulling him out of the water


"Hey Kai- look at that woman strangle that man!"

Huh? That's just Ute who is afraid of heights!

Kai is immediately attracted to this sand hill and starts running, sliding, jumping, rolling off of it. The fun is over when the mosquitoes start to feast on us as we run back to camp for cover.

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Video: Pismo Pano and scary woman.

Video: Arleen's sandhill jumps and tumbles

The boys kick back and congregate at the campsite.

Rolf daddy (aka Rachel Rolf) cooks us a mean dish of grilled salmon. And for dessert we have strawberries and whip cream over angel food cake. Not your typical camp food, I know.

And despite Joel and Marla buying some wood for the fire, and me donating a boring work manual to use as kindling- we could not get that fire stoked! We headed in for an early night- it was already getting cold.