Vacation day 1 2010

This is day one of our 5 day vacation, there will be 5 posts to it. With pictures, of course!

Monday morning we all get up and get ready to head out of town. Fish are taken care of by my boss and the house is ready for us when we come back. We all pile into the pick up truck and head west. West to the ocean and beach. Camping. 3 girls about to have a amazing time but who is to know what will happen.

We head out hwy 12 to Napa. Its sorta on our way there and I have always wanted to go to Napa. I had never been there before and working in a winery, I thought it would be a good idea to check out this famed wine area. A few hours later, we get there. Boy was I disappointed. First off nearly every place charges. Second, nearly every place was closed. Third, sorry but the Lodi area is sooo much prettier than where we were. So we ended up not stopping there.

We all started to get pretty hungry and Boo needed the use of a bathroom. I'm the map person so I was trying to find a town with SOMETHING to eat other than fast food. We all are firm believers of stopping at a mom-n-pop dinner or restraunt when on vacation and out of town. Several hours later and on some really curvy roads (not NEARLY as bad as our vacation 2 years ago), we get to the town of Sebastopol. Found a gas station there to clean the dead bug bodies off the window (we drove thru a ton of bugs at once and they covered the window) and for Boo to use the potty. I asked them where would there be a place to eat at here and they gave me directions to a little mexican place to eat at.

We drove to it and managed to find it quite easy enough. It was a pretty small place and the gal spoke next to no english at all.We ordered our food, and waited. Finally got it (after like 30 minutes) and it was waaaaayyyyy over cooked. We managed to get it down (with a lot of soda/water) and got out of there.

I freaking loved this car.

Next stop was our campsite at Bodega Bay Dunes. We pull in to check in and the gal gave us a map and told us to find 3 open spots and she will see out of them which ones we could have. Alrighty then. Well Mel turns right away and i'm looking at the map the gal gives us (it was a 4x4 square paper). we end up in the wrong spot totally but mangaed to figure out how to get to the ocean! Back tracking and saw a bunny, and found our way to the campsites. We found one that was right acrossed from the bathroom (and showers) and it was a big site. I wanted that one cuz it was the only one close to running water! We get back up and yep its ours.

our campsite

Once we got everything set up and ready for the night we drove over to the beach area. Ahhhh my MUCH needed time with the Ocean.

sweeping view of Bodega Beach

Now it was not very windy or cold there, which was TOTALLY shocking to me. Every time I have ever gone there its always windy and very cold. We hiked down the beach and saw lots of Ocean life.

My bird friend, I think I named him Frank

The small dead jelly fish

the very large dead jelly fish. I thought this one was ugly.

After a bit of the walking we found some drift wood and I made Boo pose on it. She is getting so big and pretty!

Peace chicka!

So after a bit we went back to the campsite to get a fire going and dinner cooking. We had some to-die-for corn on the cob with hot dogs roasted over the open flame. oh and yummy watermelon and chilli. Boo made friends with a boy from another campsite and they played until it was bed time.

Boo dancing in her sleeping bag because she was sooo excited!

Monday is done and over with.... xoxo, T