The Ruoss Family: May 2012

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Happy Girls at Happy Hollow

Our dear friends Klaudia and Maya (http://katelenhey.blogspot.com/) were taking their mommy on an adventure and invited us to join them! Luckily, we were able to, and we all ventured out to Happy Hollow Park and Zoo (only we never made it to the "zoo" part).

And dopey mommy left the camera's memory card in the computer. doh! But, happily, the camera has a bit of internal memory and I captured a few happy moments.

Again, and as expected, the favorite part is the marvelous "Keep Around Carousel"

Just like last time we visited nearly a year ago.

We spent a good deal of time in the redwood climbing area.

Liv worked hard at climbing the cargo nets. Mimi loved the huge slides.

Later Liv lead a group of kids "protecting the cave from the boys"

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Camping Kirk Creek

Our family's first camping trip.

We loaded up the van (really loaded it up!) and headed out to the coast.

The campsites were mostly reserved - yikes - but we arrived early enough to snag one, albeit, close to the road, for the first night. The sites are 100 feet or so above the sea. with a pretty jungle-like hike down to the rocky shore.

Late in the afternoon a Norwegian couple pulled into the campground looking for a site - of course there were no open sites - but we had a very large site and invited them to pitch their tent and share our campfire.

They joined us the next day for a hike down to the shore.

I couldn't resist climbing this.
(Bella followed me. Liv didn't think it looked like such a great idea.)

Liv lighting the way...

Jeff had an encounter with an incredibly tame/bold squirrel who was (correctly) sure we had gorp.

We had the great fortune to meet an exceptionally cool family with 2 daughters Liv's & Mimi's ages - they rode bikes, colored, and played ... and their daddy put up this swing.

"This is SO AWESOME" - Livvy