Just home, showered and wiped from our AMAZING Mother's Day weekend trip. I knew if I didn't take the chance to now, it would be at least a week before I updated with this post. So with my last ounce of vacation energy... here's a taste of the fun we had.
We've ultimately decided that "things" are nice and we like "things" but "experiences"... that's where the real memory making is at. For mother's day this year, Mr B. rented an RV from Cruise America and we invited my mom (Maga) along on our adventure. We packed up the RV on Thursday night with the intention of taking off for our campsite of Pismo Beach, CA early Friday morning. At the urging of our buddy JR, we decided to just head out. The fridge was packed and beds were made so why not? We'd wake up someplace new. Well, finding a place to park an RV when you aren't used to parking an RV at 2:00am, that's a new challenge for us. I tried staying awake as long as possible but we were all wiped out so in Carpenteria, we pulled over near an IHOP and slept for a bit. Mr B started driving again around 7 and the jolting of the "Bus" began the wake up process for everyone else. Thank you YELP for helping us find Ellen's Danish Pancake house in Buelton!
We passed Pismo and went further up the coast to San Simeon. We went on a tour of Hearst Castle, a tour that we've done two times before but it was Maga's first time. Plus the benefit of different guides is that you learn something new every time you go. We enjoyed the tour and afterwards headed back down to our campsite. I created the menu before we left and did a great job sticking to every meal plan. We were so wiped out by the end of day we knocked out after dinner.
Saturday morning, I went for the best run ever. Over the Oceano Dunes and out on to the beach. Four 1/2 miles of complete bliss.
We went adventuring through the beautiful diversity of the California Coast. Through farm land and cattle land, ocean and sand. We stopped at the famous Madonna Inn so that JT and Mr B could pee in the Rock Waterfall Urinal hahaha. We wrapped up the day with a long walk on the insanely windy beach. There were a ton of wind surfers out! After another great dinner, more campsite walking and playing and showers, we played some dominos and hit the sack after it got dark.
Sunday morning brought yummy aebleskivers, chicken, apple and gouda sausage and a mushroom scramble. After packing up our site, we ventured down to Solvang, CA and had lunch, pastries, ice cream. It was an amazing weekend packed with fun, quality time and love. I LOVE MY OHANA. So incredibly much!
Oh how we LOVE the LBUSD charter school that JT goes to. Oh how we LOVE his wonderful teacher Mrs. S. HeaBug LOVES coming to JT's class, she feels quite a part of the happenings in his room! Mrs. S hosts a ocean themed open house, which is evident from the adorable "Message in a Bottle" invitations. Because of issues in the district, Open House, which is in the second part of the school year event where you get to go and see all the things your child has been up to for the last few months, had to be moved to the end of May, barely weeks before the end of the school year. Mrs. S pulled of an amazing evening that showcased all of their wonderful work, beautiful art projects, and excellent writing! We were so proud as we strolled through the class. At the rate that JT and Hea were playing with his classmates, you would have never guessed they'd just seen each other hours before. There were beautiful sea horses, crazy cute ocean books, crab math, scuba diver writing, "who am i" mer-people, and coral/sea star displays. I work in his classroom once a week and even I was incredibly surprised! We are so proud of him and so thankful that he has such an amazing teacher.
