Goodbye to Monster Park and San Francisco. We spent the morning doing laundry where the monster of monster park ate a bunch of holes in one of Dugan's socks. The RV park laundry had a claw game that incessantly played "The Baby Elephant Walk". Sage and I heard it a few hundred times before our 3 loads of laundry were done and were stuck humming it all day!
We stocked up on groceries and took a travel day. Lunch break was at Mountain Mike's Pizza next to the grocery. Pretty tasty! The plan was to go to Big Basin and hike among the redwoods, but it was raining hard today and forcast for tomorrow as well. All the roads to Big Basin are winding with sharp curves, so we decided not to try it in a foggy downpour. Even trailer camping wouldn't be much fun in the cold rain. So we decided to head for nearby Santa Cruz and save the Redwoods for a couple days. We got the last spot in the "Beach RV Park" for a $10 discount--payment in cash, and a promise to leave in the morning, because the spot's rented and they're technically full.
The clouds broke for a small window after dinner--just long enough to walk 4 blocks to the beach at dusk and give the kids their 1st sight, sound, smell and feel of the ocean. After warnings to watch the waves, the kids got good at jumping back or wading in on purpose, but Dug got blindsided by a big wave, while petting a dog, and had to walk home with wet gym shoes and soggy pants! Downpours began again minutes after we got back.
We've been picking animal cards each day. Dugan chose rabbit, which is overcoming fears. He faced and overcame his fears of walking to and from the beach in the dark, with stormy skies overhead. Sagie picked mouse which stands for scrutinizing the details.
We've had to fish Sagie out of the luggage sill and back into the spacious dbl. bed loft 2 nights in a row ("I sleep in a drawer"). She loves to go to sleep in that cozy, little spot. Tomorrow, if the storms break, we hope to play around in the tide pools and enjoy the ocean.
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