4th of July Camping Trip

Last Wednesday we left Seattle and headed over to the Washington Coast for our annual 4th of July Camping Trip with Julia's Family. This year we camped at Grayland State Park south of Westport, instead of our usual spot at Twin Harbors Campground. At this new site had hook ups for the trailers, which was awesome since we ran an extension cord to our tent powering our space heater, Aero bed, bottle warmer, cell phones, and breast pump.



Warm Elmo Suit.

Also new this year Tanner, Leigh, and I went on a Salmon fishing charter out of Westport. The trip was ten hours of hell, Tanner and I didn't have any fun, since we were seasick the whole time and only fished about an hour out of the ten hour trip. Plus Leigh who doesn't get seasick didn't catch any Salmon, so the whole trip was a bust. Never Again!!!

Waking up at 4:30 Am.

I was excited before the trip.

Tanner Hugging the Rail.

Leigh catching a "Dog Fish".

Owen In His Saucer of Fun.

Chili Dogs for Dinner.

Hanging out in our tent.

Warm Hat.

I guess Julia took this one.

Owen's first trip to the beach.

He really liked the waves.

Here I finally caught a fish.

Getting ready to get his toes wet.



Owen's first time in the ocean.

Boy did his feet get cold, but he liked it.




Foot Prints in the sand, Owen's didn't turn out so well.

Sandy Feet.

Tavin with a sandy smiley face.





Relaxing around the fire.

Owen looking like a lobster.

Getting ready for dinner.



Elmo Head.

Staring Contest.





Getting ready for our trip to the beach for Fireworks.

Burr it was cold and windy.

Owen is under there somewhere. The beach was so foggy that we couldn't really see many fireworks, normally you can see tons of people lighting off all their firework down the beach. (not this year though.) Plus when we got to the beach and light off a few the park ranger drove up and told us we couldn't light them in front of the state park, so some of our group took off up the beach to light them off. Julia, Leigh and I stayed for a bit then got cold and went back to camp.

Overall it was a really great trip (besides puking my guts out fishing).

Posted by John