SpringVegLA2016: Vegas to LA then Home

The drive from Vegas to Santa Monica was about four hours. We drove past these cool solar fields. There were three tall, glowing, towers. They were super bright. Surrounding them were fields of solar panels.

We made it - Santa Monica!

The is the where we walk out to the beach from our new hotel. It is the stairs I want to ollie - tiny little two sets. I could probably just lift my nose and go. Maybe this summer :-)

Walkway through the sand to the beach. This is where the boy and I would spend our sunsets making tunnels and roads in the sand.

Story time

Snack / cartoon time

We met Pat, Pam, Ryder, Emma, Olive & Otis at the park in Manhatten Beach.

Apres surf burrito, beer, and sun on the step time.

His first tattoo - he wanted me to wash it off right away.

Use your aloe vera

Jonny teaching the boy the ways of the Santa Monica triple set.

Fun night at the Santa Monica pier.

Morning skate at Natas Lot

The boy is chasing a squirrel from palm tree to palm tree... like the dogs.

Then... we had to drive home :-(

But the Easter Bunny was in the Park at Kelso!

And we got to skate the Kelso Skate Park - love these mornings :-)

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JAX Beach Summer School 2018

Our summer adventure began by leaving Frank Hurt a week early, the same time as the students. We drove to Bellingham and stayed at the hotel by the Slo Pitch. We had snacks and went swimming. Step one: Get through the border was done. The next mission was to make it through the Seattle traffic. We also stopped off at Bellis Fair and got a new hat for Big Boy as he left his in grandma's basement before we left.

In Seattle we stayed by the airport and found Angle Lake. It has a beach, BBQ spots, a play park, and a water park... and washrooms. I didn't have my suit on this time, because we thought it was just a water park, but next time, I am jumping in. Big Boy didn't want to go in without me.

C-SIDE aka CarrieSIDE

We watched the weather forecast closely to make sure we would have some nice days in Seaside. We had until Friday to cancel. The weather looked good until the day we left so we went for it. The morning we woke up to leave (Tuesday), the weather app changed and gave us two bad days. Too late now! Off we went to Seaside. Carrie was already on her way but we did get an earlier start that I thought we would. We left at 7am. Here is the boy before we left - sad faced and with Bear.
The City Center Motel. We were in unit 1 beside the pool. This was a great unit for us. Number 6 on the other side of the pool looks nice too. I thought we were going to miss having the little cottage one - but this was much nicer because the boy could have his bath.
Tuesday, we arrived and headed straight to the beach to play. We did wave jumping, beach bowling, and we made some roads and tunnels. Christian found a buddy his age and they had a great time chasing each other and playing.

Carrie found us! She …

End of Summer Adventures aka: Running Away from Project "FIX THE PATIO"

Bellingham Well, this sucks... they are jack hammering outside our patio door. We better run away. Where can we go? Let's go to Bellingham and then back to Seattle and go swim in that lake again.

Seattle It was super hot the day we got to Seattle... we decided to wait to go to the lake until the next day... and it started raining?! One day we will spend the day at the lake and make a bbq. We did the second best thing and took the train to the city. Christian loves the train.

Whistler We came home and got a nice bamboo fence to block out the views, bring us some shade, and give us some security.

But.. the drilling continued on Monday... and got closer! Off to Whistler.

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