Camping

We have now camped as a family in Utah, Oregon, Virginia, and now California. We went to Del Valle Regional Park which has a big reservoir and campground. It was pretty last minute so we were only able to get a site for Wed and Thurs nights. It was perfect! The campground was about 11 miles from home and plenty secluded. We saw deer, tons of birds, a raccoon, and squirrels galore. It got a bit hot during the day, but thankfully there was a swimming area to cool off at.

Unfortunately, this nice beach area was made up of small pebbles. Kinda painful on the footsies.

The kids didn't seem to mind.

We spent tons of time around the fire. Making smores, talking, and playing games.

The desert hills. Pretty dry and hot. We had some nice shade though.

On our second day we went to the other end of the lake and rented pedal boats. We had a good time pedaling into the wind. It made for a great work out. Afterwards we hit up the other beach area for swimming. Overall we had a lot of fun together. It would have been the perfect place to camp with bikes, but we were without the van so we had to pack super light. We had this little rental jeep and we could barely fit the essentials in it. We'll have to try again another time when we can bring all of the gear.