We awoke to find two teenagers in our RV this morning! Yes, Sarah and Leland have hit the dreaded (well, dreaded for parents anyway!) teenage years 😝
Müfit and I didn’t sleep very well as our bedroom is at the back of the RV which is close to a railway line and the highway. Add the trains and road noise to the extremely loud waves and we had anything but a restful night. The kids had started the night with a window open but quickly closed it when they realised just how loud the waves were too, but at least they couldn’t hear the highway as clearly as we could. All in all, I can’t really say that staying here was worth the money we paid for it, but again, if the weather had been nicer last night and this morning, it would have helped.
Our destination today is Long Beach, and we travelled mostly on freeways after spending a while in a Walmart buying Sarah a bikini, which she had been insisting on buying the last 2 weeks!
Even though we didn’t have weekday traffic to contend with, the traffic coming into the LA area was still very heavy, as we expected, so the drive was slower than it might have been, but we didn’t have a very large distance to travel today and made it to the RV park, Golden Shore RV Park, at a sensible time. We were excited to finally have a full hook-up – so this means we are connected to water, sewer, and electric, and the kids were even more excited to have wifi!!!
The RV park is nice – there’s an outdoor pool as well as showers (if you need them), and laundry, and it’s close to the waterfront. As with all these places – from what we’ve seen in photos – everyone is somewhat on top of each other, with not much space in between pads, and there’s not much in the way of trees or privacy, but we’ve got quite a nice spot here; good thing because we’re here for 3 nights!
Being the twins’ birthday, we had planned to go out for dinner, so we got ready, left the dogs in the RV, and walked almost a mile towards an area where there are lots of restaurants near the waterfront, and across the water from the Queen Mary. We were going to try a chain restaurant that we haven’t been to before, but found the wait time could have been as much as 45 minutes. We settled for Outback instead – another chain – where they specialise in steaks and have an Aussie theme! We let the kids choose whatever they wanted, and ended up with a rather large bill by the end of the evening! Oh well, I guess they only turn 13 once!!
Bolgil Family Adventures 