On Friday after work my dad came over and picked us up and we headed out camping at San Jacinto State Park. We met up with Sean and Amy, their kids, her parents, and Mary and her kids and David. We purchased two campsites but had to put both large tents in the same campsite because the one next to it was on a steep incline. There was no flat or semi flat area for a tent to go. The evening park ranger was not thrilled with us but he allowed it for the night. Quiet time was 10:00 so that became bedtime for everyone. Once we were all settled, Chloe decided to have a meltdown. She wasn't ready to go to sleep, but she settled in rather quickly and was off to sleep in no time. Connor realized around 10:30 that he left his garbage truck in the car and wouldn't let us go to sleep without it. I ventured to the car and retrieved the truck. Back in the tent again we got cozy in our sleeping bags. Around midnight Oliver woke up, he woke up again around 1:00am, 3am, and 5am. He cried a bit and then went into full blown screams at 5am. Many of the other campers in nearby campsites were not thrilled with us. One screamed "Pick up your baby!" I don't think they liked us. I don't think any of the adults in our tent got much sleep. Chloe and Connor managed to sleep through most of Oliver's cries.
In the morning we all told Oliver he was on the naughty list. After breakfast the morning park rangers came over to our campsite. Apparently they had several complaints of noise from our campsite at night. The ranger said if we were staying another night we would have to split into the other campsite and cook all meals separately. We understood that the complaints were about Oliver screaming all night long, but even in two campsites he still would've done that. The whole cooking in separate sites was a bit absurd though.
After breakfast we cleaned up our stuff and loaded into the cars. Two cars went for a hike somewhere, while our car headed to the Palm Springs Aerial Tram. It was AMAZING! Totally worth the cost! It took us up about 6000 feet in about 10 minutes.
Connor waits for his turn
Here it comes
While on the tram the floor rotated so everyone got a full view of the mountainside. It was pretty awesome. Once we got to the top we walked down a steep pathway and found some fun trails to explore. Chloe found this giant rock that she was very excited to stand next to.
She then found a Chloe sized rock
Connor found a rather large walking stick.
Chloe found a walking stick too.
Chloe then found a much larger walking stick but couldn't pick it up.
Connor carried his walking stick for a little while.
While on one trail we found this patch of snow. The kids had a great time playing in it. Grandpa threw a snowball at Connor and he turned around and said not to throw snowballs, we were not having a snowball fight. A few minutes later Connor made a snowball and threw it at Grandpa and exclaimed, "Snowball fight!"
Chloe enjoyed eating the snow, even though Mommy said No.
Grandpa had fun in the snow too.
Here's one of the lookout view points we hiked to.
I liked the view
Here's the view from the top of the tram station looking down.
Connor smiles inside the tram.
The tram had a couple of open windows which let in a nice cool breeze. It was also a little eerie looking down and out through them.
Afterwards Peter and I agreed this was the highlight of our trip. We would totally do this again.
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