Camping April 2011...

As promised here is a photo journal of our camping trip! Can't remember the name of the campground but it was really close to Rockaway Beach. I know I know, I really messed up by not getting any pictures of the campfire. To be honest we didn't have very good fires, most of the wood we brought was wet and we didn't want to buy a lot since it was really expensive. Sorry about that, but we have fires in our backyard pretty regularly, so I'll throw a pic of one of those on here for ya, when I find one. Also, this is a really thrown together post, not a lot of time, so if you want to see photos chronologically you must read from bottom to top. Sorry. Hope you enjoy our camping trip as much as we did!

Tyler holding up a Cockle clam. These are racked up instead of using a clam gun to dig them out of the sand. Also, they don't dig down really fast like a Razor clam, they just sit an inch or two under the sand and wait to be scooped up. Tony raked all of these, and had fun doing it too! Although he was waste deep in the bay! We decided we definitely need to do it again, since digging Razor clams kills Rob's and my back!!!! And tonight Robert made clam fritters which we dominated!!! So yummy, and they turned out great especially for a first try!

A picture of all the Cockles before Robert cleaned them. That sure looks like a lot of unpleasant work!! He is going to save all the shells and serve hors d'oeuvres on them, like a fancy seafood restaurants!!! :)

Tyler finding what the Easter bunny left him in the trailer on Easter Sunday. He was so surprised that the Easter Bunny knew he was camping!!! We are going to do an egg hunt on the next nice day. We really didn't get a chance to dye boiled eggs. Easter kinda snuck up on mom!

Tyler looking very relaxed as he roasts his marshmallows for smores. He didn't do to well, but hey it was his first time. He really just wanted to catch them on fire, and we were all a little nervous about him holding a roaster stick!!!!

Tyler reluctantly holding a salamander that big brother Tony caught. He figured he should since baby Chris did. Thank goodness for sanitizer. ;)

Chris was very curious about that little critter.

Even though they are so slow out of the water, I couldn't get a good picture for some reason. Oh well, you guys all know what a salamander looks like. :)

Chris after I said 'don't you smile!'

Chris before I said 'don't you smile!'

Chris digging his little toes in the sand. He was a little skeptical but then he really liked it!

Cute little toes dug in the sand.

Action shot of Chris nearly missing his face with the sand.

Another action shot of Chris throwing sand. I didn't take too many of these since I didn't want to deal with the sand in the eye, ear, mouth, etc, situation.

Chis smiling in the sun sitting in the sand!!

Rob will kill me for putting this pic of him on the blog, but I thought it was too cute how they are both holding their fishing poles facing opposite directions.

Refer back to my Norman Rockwell post. How great is this picture. I mean it wouldn't win any contests or anything, but I just love that it's a toe-head teenager, fishing on the jetty with his dog. I mean, do you EVER see that anymore? I don't and I live somewhere where everyone fishes!!! It's rare to see a teenager without a phone or ipod glued to their hand or ear. I think he had a lot of fun, even though we didn't get any fish.



Videos of the camping.

Please disregard Robert yelling at the dog. I couldn't really edit it out without ruining the video, and it's so cute. He was fishing in a little tide pool and caught on so fast!!! He was really intent on catching a fish out of there. BTW Copper had been whining like that for about 20 min.

More video of my cutie pie playing in the sand. Silly mom didn't bring a shovel or any toys for the sand, so there was only one thing to do with it!!

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