Lawsons Landing

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Better late than never right?

Well the pictures have been up for a week now, I just haven’t gotten around to making a post. I’ll be refrencing a whole bunch of pictures in this post, so when you see a blue link, click it to see what I’m refering to. I’ll also be linking to some of Chadd’s pictures too. You can also read his post about the trip here as well.
Keith, Meghann, Matt and Tiffanee got over here around 8am on Thursday morning joining Chadd and I. We finished packing up the truck in my garage. I went over to Walmart and bought a net to cover everything, which made packing substatially easier. The drive was mostly uneventfull. We got into camp, weren’t able to get the spot we wanted at the very end because there was already somebody there, but Matt and Tiffanee found a pretty nice spot so we ploped down right there and setup camp.

After we got things settled, we all headed over the dunes to play in the sand. We took the outdoor sports set that Keith and Meghann bought and put it to a diffrent use. First, everybody played soccer using the volleyball as the ball, and the volleyball net poles as goal posts. We also played baseball until we completely obilterated the tennisball and had to call the game.

We had hot dogs and hamburgers for dinner, Matt ate way to many and regretted it later. Keith, Matt and I also enjoyed sampling a whole bunch of diffrent beers that Keith and I picked up in the large cans/bottles.

When it finally got dark out, Matt, Chadd and I headed out to the beach to try to take some night sky pictures. I’m pretty happy with how mine came out. Particularly this one where you can see the Milky Way, and this one of the big dipper.

Friday morning, I cooked up hashbrowns, bacon, saussage and eggs in the dutch oven while everybody else lounged around the fire and had s’mores as appatizers. After breakfast, the girls got into their suits, and went for a splash in the ocean. Matt, Keith and I went and got Ice and firewood. We all eventually headed down to the beach to join the girls. Matt and I took a bunch of random pictures, while Chadd and Keith lunged.

I do have to point out, that walking on the beach was a guy with a HUGE dog. An Irish Wolfhound. I didn’t get any pictures of the front of the dog, but I got him walking away. This dog is crazy, I want one!

Matt and Chadd made a sand castle while the girls continued their quest to become popsilces in the ocean. When Chadd and Matt were done, Matt and Keith went ahead and joined the polar bear club, and I started making my own sand castle. Not as exciting, but fun for me all the same.

Tiffanee had to leave shortly after that because she had to work Saturday, but the rest of us stuck around and had kabobs for dinner. As well as an apple and cherry cobler that I made in the dutch oven.

Saturday morning we got up fairly early (for camping) and started packing up. Breakfast was the same thing in a dutch oven as the morning before. We managed to make pretty good time getting everything packed up, but then on the drive home I missed a turn off of Highway 1 and didn’t realize it for a while, so we had about a 45 min detour before we finally made it home.