Friday, August 3rd we left for Long Beach! It only took 2 hours from our house. The clouds parted and the sun came out just for us!
Don and Jane at the Sand Castle RV park put us in space #22. This is the type of park that I said I didn’t ever want to stay at… the kind that is just a big grass yard with lots of RV’s. This is not my idea of camping. But this is exactly where we would be staying for the weekend. Guess what? This was a perfect place to camp for the first time out! Not only were Don and Jane the nicest people ever, but they helped us back in and would have answered a million questions for us it that’s how many we had.
The first night we had people behind us, but they pulled out early Saturday morning and that left us with no one in front of us and no one on our side. Very nice! Don and Jane were parked kitty-corner behind us and we could chat with them as they came and went. The bathrooms and laundry room were super, super clean and everything was very well kept up.
Saturday morning we set out to go Geocaching – after making coffee, walking the dogs and Rick getting a shower. We left a Travel Bug “Toothless” at the first cache. And visited 5 others that day. We did some bumming around and played with the dogs a little at the beach before getting a late lunch at Chen’s in Long Beach. With the dogs (and me too) bushed, we headed for our camper and an early night.
Two very tired dogs!
During the night a siren went off and scared me half to death. It was about 2 in the morning. Rick and Cassie kept sleeping. Then just after is stopped it started again. I woke Rick to find out if it was a Tsunami warning or a volunteer fire fighters siren. He poked his head outside and said no one was evacuating so it must be a fire siren. As if I could get to sleep after that!
Sunday morning, walked the dogs and drank more coffee before taking everything down and hitting the road. We thanked Don and Jane for a nice time at the park and got on the road. We stopped at Bennett’s in Grayland for lunch and then on to home. If you are ever in Grayland stop at Bennett’s!
Next weekend we are off to a campground near North Bend, WA!
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August 9, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Sherri
I am so excited for you guys!
When we stayed at the Sand Castle, it was the weekend of the car show (can’t remember the name of it) so we were literally jammed in there so tight, but we still had fun.
I am excited that you are keeping us posted on your travels. I also want to see pictures of the inside, remember I was the one who thought it was just a wood floor inside.