I finally went camping! In all of my 32 (yikes) years, I have never slept out in the wilderness without a comfy hotel room surrounding me. It was an experience. When we first drove up to our tent cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a half dozen pesky critters…aka 10 year olds…were running in and out of our cabin. I guess camping = letting your kids do whatever they want? It was getting dark, so we quickly unpacked, changed, made a fire, and grabbed some beer.
The first nights sleep was okay. Poor Jay was freezing. But for some reason I almost always become a human furnace at night. I’m surprised there wasn’t steam coming out of the sleeping bag. But the constant moving of the air mattress made me miss some zzz’s.
We got up around 6:30 and started breakfast. I attempted to make coffee. Who knew you couldn’t heat up a coffee pot on a grill…booo! At least the grill worked for our breakfast. Jay cooked us up egg, cheese, and bacon sandwiches.
After breakfast we were ready to hike! Big Basin State Park in the mountains is known for it’s Redwood trees. They were some HUGE ones. The biggest ones are about 2,000 years old. Crazy.
We hiked on a few trails, then Jay’s foot started hurting pretty badly. We drive into Santa Cruz to check it out. The best part was the Sea Lions! They were all over the wharf getting some sun.
Then we went back to make our big meal of the trip. Jay is awesome on the grill and made a tasty steak dinner.
I may have scarfed down a pack of Dunkaroos for dessert.
After snapping a couple pics of our cabin and the huge …mostly burnt… tree it was time to go! Back to civilization, and my own bathroom! Have you camped before?
Camping sounds like fun! I’ve never gone. I don’t know if I would be able to handle sleeping in a tent. I would probably need a cabin. Hah.
The sea lions are too cute!!!
I love that they enjoy sunning!
I went camping forever ago. It looks like a lot of fun though.
Wow- between those incredible trees and waterfall- what a place to camp! I bet you’re ready for another round!
Wow! Camping actually looks like soo much fun! I’ve never slept in the wilderness before, and this kinda makes me want to be a lil’ more adventurous. The food looks AMAZING!! Doesn’t everything taste sooo much better when eaten outside? That’s one of the reason why I LOVE picnics =). We may just have some rice and nori sheets, but boy is it delish! Nom nom nom. Did you have some s’mores?!?
When I was a kid our family considered a week of camping every year to be a “vacation”. I considered it torture. LOL I haven’t been since.
That looked like a fun experience. I’ve only gone camping once for a school trip but am supposed to go again with friends in a month. This post made me super excited about it ^^
I have never enjoyed camping. I went once but didn’t make it through the night. I was 10 and in girl scouts. They called my mom to come pick me up because I hated it so much lol. I’m a hotel kind-of girl I guess?!
I can’t believe you had never been camping! I grew up camping. I love it except when there’s no bathroom
Those sea lions look so cool! I’ve never seen them in the wild!
I LOVEE that you are wearing a Lulu sweatshirt while camping..you are my hero! I love camping..sometimes. I haven’t been in a while, but sometimes it’s a blast!! Now I want to go!
camping in style! i love it. Although i feel ya on the air mattress. It’s not a good sleep.
looks like a fun time! My husband and I have gone camping- it’s always so much fun!