It was christmas Break and we hadn’t gone anywhere. We were finally going to Montaña del Oro State Park. Montaña del Oro means Mountain of the Gold in Español. We were going there to be with our Cate friends: Mimi, Rosita, Kiy, Aidan, Josiah, and Austin. We were the last ones to leave Cate, so once we got to the State Park, the rest had already gone biking at the bluffs. When they got back, we had a campfire and ate vegetarian marshmallows. That night, a raccoon stole our carrots and bread. We awoke to the sound of RVs running their generators. We asked them why, and they said they were charging their cell phones. That made me dislike cell phones even more. It was disturbing the campsite and the quail.
We decided to leave the campground and drive over the hill to Hazard Canyon.
We walked out onto the dunes where a sexist man told us that we’d better walk on the more established path because the ladies wouldn’t be able to walk on the sand. We walked on the hard trail just to prove him wrong, and I think he wasn’t able to walk on the sand dunes because he was carrying walking poles. When we reached the edge of the dunes, the parents wanted to go first, so we followed them down to the tide pools. 
We wandered over the rocks, but the only animals we found were egrets.
The water in the tide pools was clear, and I wished I had my snorkel stuff. 
The rocks were slippery since there was red algae everywhere. 
We ate lunch in the campground, then stayed there for a while until I came up with a brilliant idea. I wanted to climb a mountain whose name began with a V. Everyone thought that that was a good idea, and we walked to the trailhead. Everyone came except for Chris and Rosita, but only Mama and I reached the top. 
Once I had reached the top with my mother, my tooth fell out. Mama told me that I shouldn’t put my tooth under my pillow because the Tooth Fairy doesn’t come when you are camping. We saw Grey Whales spouting in the distance as we walked down the hill. That night, we cooked hala bread in the potje.
The smoke kept getting in my face. The next day we walked to the bluffs at low tide and I saw chitons, mussels, sea anemones, sea otters, and other things as well. After we had left the state park, we stopped at a place with pillow basalts, which are at the ocean floor mostly. There were also pelicans and sea anemones. 
We drove back home and on the way I saw San Miguel Island (closed temporarily) and Santa Rosa Island (open to public)
