birthday trip day2 - sunset

As I mentioned in the old post, 

we decided to camp on the beach due to the government shut down,

but we did not realize that lots of parks along the beach were national parks as well.

Therefore, many camp sites were closed or

were filled with lots of people who also did not have lots of options to stay.

That made us keep driving and searching for a campsite we liked for hours...

Beverly Beach campground had the separated campsites for tent campers and RV campers,

and there were only few tent campers in the cold weather.

So, we decided to stay there for the night.

After we picked our campsite, we went to the beach to see the sunset.

Unfortunately, we missed it by 5 minutes, but the view was still so fabulous.

Milo and mama had some sweet moments.

Oh, she got her hands full!

We walked on the beach in the beautiful light,

and played more:)

birthday trip day2 - Florence

After we left the yurt, we headed to a beach in Florence.

They had such a great sand dunes, 

and Milo used his hiking stick which was only 3 inch long to climb up the hill.

The contrast of sand, sky, and water was just so beautiful.

It was simply so nice to be at the quiet and (almost) private beach.

We drew lots of lines and pictures on the beach.

Seriously, we had so much fun!

Then, the boys moved to the sand dunes area and played more.

Silas might have had more fun than anybody.

At the same time, he helped Milo 

and taught him well.

We had a lunch there and it was time to find a new campsite.

birthday trip day1 - Tugman Campsite

We took a family camping trip to celebrate Silas and Yuri's birthdays.

We were originally planning to go to Olympic National Park,

but we had to change our destination due to the government shut down.

Then we found out it would be rainy,

so we decided to go to stay in a yurt at Tugman campground 

which is located about 30 minutes south from Florence for the 1st night.

When we arrived there, it was already dark...

But Milo played in the yurt,

throwing his toys from the bunk bed.

He has been into making peace signs lately.

This is our birthday boy who finally became 30 years old today.

We celebrated Silas's birthday with these pies.

Happy Biryhday, Big boy!

We were not sure if it was because of the bunk bed, the pie, or his DNA,

Milo was so hyper even in his sleeping bag.

Silas seemed to be old enough now to deal with his business with his phone even in the yurt.

(actually, he was playing some games with his phone.)

On the next day, Milo played in the yurt more

and we left the campsite after taking some family photos.

Yurt, thank you for keeping us dry and warm:)

Milo's school report

In this morning, Milo did not cry when he had to say bye to his mama at the school.

That almost made her cry instead.

Milo had his first baking time and played with his friends a lot.