Our Weekend In Homer

This past Thursday, we loaded up Rory (the RV) and headed down to Homer for the weekend with Darrin's mom and sister, Raychel. It's about a four hour drive if you don't stop (which we did) so we arrived at our campground at dinner time and grilled up some burgers in the rain. We also explored the beach in front of our campground. We ended up moving sites because I wanted to be able to kick the kids outside without having to watch them every second near the water.


Jordy is our best camping kid. She is always ready to explore and she never cares if she's dirty.


Jake is a little more reserved. He doesn't like to get too dirty.


Doobie found this hollow log and spent some time throwing rocks into it.

Later that evening, Darrin, Raychel and I took a walk down the boardwalk to the Time Bandit gift shop where we got to spend some time chatting with Captain Johnathan Hillstrand (See THIS post). On our way back, the kids and grandma met us on the path and handed out big hugs.

Then the kids showed us all the fun they had while we were out walking. Jordan learned to walk on this log without help.

Jake made me this flower pot.

Doobie slid down the entire log on his belly.

It took a really long time.

My Alaska Man.

On our second day we took the kids to get their picture taken by this big crab pot out in front of the Time Bandit store.

We also did some other shopping.

We also took a little charter cruise out into the bay to see some wildlife. The kids got to drive the boat a little. Jake took his job very seriously.

Jordy did not take her job seriously and she made me seasick in the process.

But we saw this sea lion.

And this otter.

On Friday we also had lunch at Capt. Patty's restaurant. We highly recommend it if you like seafood. Raychel said she would drive down to Homer and back in one day just to have lunch there.

We stayed in Homer two nights and left on Saturday to drive back home. It took seven hours to get home because of road construction. Thank goodness we had a bathroom on board.