An Adventure Turns Into a Happy Father's Day!

On Saturday we took off for our beach trip to Leo Carrillo. We had plans to stay in our tent trailer in the parking lot of Sams Club or Walmart in Oxnard - for free. (We did it a few years ago). (We wanted to be at Leo Carrillo at 5:30 am to pick some good spots for the week.) We got to the parking lot and noticed there were no other campers there. After asking around, we learned they no longer let people stay there. So, we were homeless! We called a few campgrounds and they informed us there were no spots available all up and down the coast that night. We were figuring we would just have to fork out the money and stay at the first hotel we found - the Hilton. Before we decided to do that, we thought we'd check out one more spot. Thornhill Broom. The surfer girl at the kiosk agreed that there were no spots available anywhere along the coast. We thanked her, and made a u-turn to go back to the hotel. She quickly opened the window on the other side and apparently felt bad for our homeless family. She said she didn't realize it was 8:30 pm-they had a few spots available for late check ins, and there was nobody there yet for those spots so we could have one!!!! We were so grateful to her!! She said if a late check in came, she would have them squeeze in where they could! Wow what a relief!!! It allowed Will to ride his bike up to Leo Carrillo in the morning to get 3 great campsites together for the big family event, and I could stay back with the kids at our temporary housing. While we were waiting for Will, we made this sign out of rocks for him. (This was on Father's Day. Will has mowed "MOM" in our grass before for Mother's Day for me - The least we could do was spell "Daddy" with rocks at the beach - I'm not that talented with the lawn mower!)
















Once we got to Leo Carrillo to unpack for the week, the boys gave Will their Father's Day presents. They had worked on these "bird houses" during the previous week and could not wait to give them to him! They also gave him one to work on together. These are their masterpieces they painted on their own. They became the center pieces at our campground table.