In May we camped a couple of nights in a tent cabin at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. We’d never tried tent cabins before, and although our cots are more comfortable than the “beds” provided in the tent cabin, it was nice to not have to set up our tent. Here’s our home away from home for the weekend. The setting was beautiful.
It was a little chilly, so we had a fire. Of course, we would have had a fire anyway, since building it is the boys’ favorite part of camping.
They tried their hand at whittling and really enjoyed it.
We all slept OK that first night, and we had some smiling faces at breakfast.
Pretty soon we set off on a nice hike.
Ezra likes the banana slugs.
After a rest, a little bike riding and some fun with the dry ice we’d brought along …
… we headed back out for a shorter hike. At some point we came to a small bridge with this note carved into it.
Obviously, my head almost exploded because of all the errors. The kids didn’t care; they just wanted to throw things into the water below.
Here are more shots from the hike.
Back at camp, marshmallow roasting capped off the evening.
In the morning the boys got the wood stove working in the cabin. Just because.
And then we headed home. We had missed Game 7 of the Kings v. Ducks playoff series that weekend and were out of service range the whole time. As we headed back to civilization, I was very happy to receive several text messages with the good news that the Kings had trounced the Ducks (6-2) and moved on to the next round!