Hermosa Beach, Ventura, Carlsbad, Arcadia, Boulder.. I am loving this .. after 7 weeks in LA, so much fun with friends at the parks and beaches, several visits with Grandma Dorothy, helping her get packed to move to her beautiful new 2 bedroom mobile home in Thousand Oaks, moving away from LA has made me REALLY appreciate the wealth I have here! We headed back to Colorado and busied ourselves with a fun history class one of the homeschool moms is teaching, Reese played in his first GO tournament, we attended Homeschool Day at the Denver Botanical Gardens, fun afternoons with our homeschool tween group, and a field trip to an Alpaca farm (that also had a camel and several Llamas -who act as guard dogs for the Alpacas). We got to watch the babies nurse!
We squeezed in some sleepovers and played in beautiful sunshine as well as several snow days and then mommy drove to Santa Fe for a long weekend of satsang with Neelam to renew and rejuvenate and come back centered, present and smiling!!
Then I got an email invitation to go camping with 20 or so homeschool families in Joshua Tree and I quickly ditched my ideas of home the RV had spoiled me on tent camping.. and off we went for some outdoor adventure.
All of our camping gear was packed away in a garage in Hermosa Beach, so we bought a $20 tent from Walmart and a $20 air mattress, borrowed a few sleeping bags and were just fine thank you very much! Tons of rock climbing, awesome community meals and relaxation and hiking and the highlight was one of the dads organized a Magic cards tournament (got decks for all the kids) and Reese has a new passion..
