Summer "09

Me and Christine on a Big Sur girls-surf-camp trip

Christine rejoicing when the AAA tow truck finally made it up to the Plaskett Creek campground to open the car. I locked the keys inside. Ahhh, wouldn't be a Hayes adventure without something like that!


Summer 2009 Begins
Camille= on summer break
Ryan= working but has furlough days

We have been enjoying the company of our good friends and family, and I have been enjoying the surf almost daily (yea summer break)! What are the highlights so far?

Well, here goes

• Growing tomatoes, carrots, squash, hot peppers, cucumbers, string beans, cantaloupe, strawberries, sweet peas, sunflowers... (to varying degrees of success) in our garden
• Homemade Strawberry jam, Marionberry jam, peach pie, cobbler, and ice cream (fruit's in season)
  
• Ryan's building a walnut and poplar coffee table for us
  
• Seeing our friends have beautiful babies and spending time with them, Rj and Ana, Katie and Avery, Shelly n Matt, Holly n Garth
  
• Chickens bullying the cats
  
• good surf
• Big Sur trips

One thing we learned, showing up in Big Sur with no reservations in July, is not a great idea, but do-able. Christine and I went on Monday and found a spot with no problem. I really wanted Ryan to be able to go up too, so I packed the car and his stuff, and we took off after work with Lyndal, on Thursday. Of course, there were no sites available, so we decided to treck into the hills and find a spot. After we almost rolled off a cliff in our truck trying to find a campsite above the cloudline, we decided to go back down and just stay in the "overflow" spot (Hayes-adventures continued). Early the next morning, Ryan and I made an aggressive prowl and we found one spot where the family had to go home sick, and reserved it for the second night. Barely got the spot. It was worth it. Sunny all day, decent surf and good company. That was the second or third big sur trip for the summer.

Next adventure on the calendar:

• Mainland Mexico, July 22 - Aug 1st, 2009