Camping at Big Basin

We took Anthony camping at Big Basin State Park this weekend, our first trip of the season. We went with Celisa and her boys and everyone had a grand old time!

As we got out of the cars I commented to C. that we were already off to a better start than our two camping trips last year. Her response, "Because he's still in the clothes he started out in??" Yep, when you start off low, you have nowhere to go but up. (Little dude got carsick last year.)

We had lunch, set up camp and played in the campsite for awhile. Anthony had so much fun running around camp exploring. There were stumps to run around, roots to climb over, a downed log to walk on and a tent to go in and out of!

After settling in, we headed into the main area of the park and took a 1/2 mile walk on the Redwood Loop Trail, an easy nature trail. I'm guessing that Anthony walked about 1/2 of it, maybe a little more. Some of the time he rode on my back in the Ergo and Daddy carried him on his shoulders some.

We all spent quite awhile playing inside the hollow tree. C's boys are 6 and 4 and all three boys were running around the tree, inside the tree, around the tree....

We ended the day with S'mores and a short campfire. Grown-up s'mores were made with Ghiradelli chocolate (the caramel filled kind) instead of Hershey's bars. Vast improvement!

Bedtime didn't go smoothly, but it finally went! Someone was overexcited and overtired.