CAMPING DURING SPRING BREAK [part1]

I went camping with some of my close friends. We left town the Thursday before spring break and we camped at Big Basin and Pinnacles National Monument. It was much better than i expected it to be. It took like 9 hours to get to Big Basin but it was well worth it! We went on some awesome hikes. I even had some bad experiences with the raccoons but I enjoyed it so much I did not want to leave!
Our plan was that we were going to stay at Big Basin for 5 nights and at Pinnacles for 2 nights. WE ended up staying at Pinnacles for only one night because it began to rain.
The first day we got to Big Basin at midnight. As we started to set up our tents I went to go get something form the trunk of the car. It was so dark when i saw the light of the trunk on and a FAT raccoon chewing on my bag of vegan cookies! It was frightened and ran away with two other raccoons. Then I saw that they had my vegan loaf of bread! My friend tried to scare them off but they were making weird growling noises at him. They hadn't eaten the bread yet but the bag had holes in it so i just told my friend to leave them alone since they were getting all aggressive.
It turns out they opened by backpack that was in the trunk and chewed through my cookie bag, ripped open my pita chip bag, and ate a whole loaf of my bread! These raccoons are so used to people that they know how to open zippers! A raccoon unzipped one of my friend's tent and unzipped his backpack because he had food in it the day before. There was no food in the back pack so the raccoon just made a mess of all my friend's clothes. They had to lock the zippers together from that day on hahah
We went on a hike to the top of Buzzard's Roost which had an awesome view. My friend was told that if we saw a Banana Slug that we would be lucky because they are difficult to spot or something. MY friend Brittany had been there before but she had never seen one. It was so exciting when we saw a banana slug on the hike up Buzzard's Roost! We took pictures of it and some of my friends even touched it hahah! They are so interesting, slimmy, yellow things. We thought we were so damn lucky when we saw a second one on that same hike. We saw a total of Five banana slugs on that hike! So then we thought we weren't THAT lucky if we had seen so many in one hike. On the way back to our camp we saw some kind of a newt walking slowly out of some water. My friend Jose was so excited to see one that he garbed it and let it walk on his hand while my friend Eddie took pictures of it. It walked really slow and it looked very tired after my friend let it walk on him for so long. I did not want to touch it but one of my other friends did. The next day we went to the headquarters of the park. They have many fliers about things at the park, things that are interesting, things to do, and dangerous animals. The newt we saw was on that list of dangerous animals! It is a poisonous newt! Nothing happened to Jose but we were all surprised. My friend Jose wasn't worried at all. He actually touched another one after he knew it was poisonous! Crazy bastard! He put it down as soon as we all told him to, it was terrible top think what could have happened.
The next day went on another hike and right from the beginning we saw three banana slugs. We were messing around on some tree that had fallen over. it was suspended a like a foot or two off the ground by another tree so we were walking on it. It was funny because it kept bouncing up and down. My friend Eddie thought he could stand on it while my other friend shook it. Well Eddie fell backward right onto a banana slug!! I had even warned them about it so they wouldn't step on it but the slug turned out to be okay. It just left Eddie's shirt really slimmy. That day I stopped counting how many banana slugs we saw after the fifteenth one! We saw sooo many on that hike it almost seemed like we were very UNlucky.