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Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts

Friday, May 30, 2008

Last Day at the Beach

We have had a fantastic week at the beach. I can't believe we have to go home tomorrow!

The weather has cooperated with us as well. Yesterday we did have a bit of rain in the morning so we headed off to the Coastal Discovery Museum. We weren't really sure what to expect, but we liked the free admission!

Coastal Discovery Museum

When we got there, it looked like if it hadn't been raining, there would have been lots to see and do outside. But inside we had fun looking at the exhibits and doing the "kids" activities.

Like coloring...

coloring Butterflies

... and doing puzzles...

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... and reading the books...

Blow Fish

and we learned that the little holes in the beach are caused by "ghost shrimp." That was worth the trip for us!

When we were done, the rain had moved out and the boys played a quick game of tag...

Coastal Discovery Museum

After lunch we went to the pool at our place and the boys played for quite a while. And in the evening we took a walk on the beach and watched two girls with their body boards surfing in the waves while dolphins swam not 10 feet from them. It was really cool.

This morning, we got all ready to go to the beach. Rich bought Josh a body board at the store this morning so we were very excited to try it out!

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... and we got to the beach and there was not a breath of a wind and notice behind Josh, the crashing waves... or lack thereof...

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So, a quick game of beach cricket...

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And the excitement of the body board was just too much, despite the lack of waves....

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And the boys did their best.

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Josh was in there for about an hour. He did really well in the end, despite not having many waves.

Now we're getting ready for one last dip in the pool, a barbecue for dinner and then we're heading up to Shelter Cove to see Shannon Tanner on our last night here.

We're off tomorrow, but it's been a fantastic vacation!

Monday, May 26, 2008

Playing at the Beach

When at the beach, go for a walk in the morning before breakfast.

Morning Walk

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Come back to the house and have left over pizza for breakfast.... Pizza for breakfast???? Well, we are on holiday!

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Fly a kite on the beach...

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Play in the surf...

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... hey look! Proof I was on vacation!

Look for sea shells...

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Play in the sand...

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Drive a "Sand Boat/Rocket Ship" Thingy----

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... And that was just the first morning!

The afternoon we spent lounging around and swimming in the pool at our cottage.

Needless to say, we had a few tired people in the house!

More pictures here.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

You know what's fun?

Getting all ready for vacation.

Packing the car up and psyching yourself up for the journey, and then your Father-in-law notices a screw sticking out of your BRAND NEW TIRES.

So, we detoured to the Firestone dealer. Thankfully the screw didn't puncture the tire. In fact, it barely was in there -- more lodged in the tread. But they checked the tire pressure for us and we were on our way.

4 hours later we were at the beach.....

Going to the beach

See the Sea

Beach

My Beach Boys

Monday, June 18, 2007

2007 England Tour, Part 5 -- Sandy Balls, Day 2

Tuesday, June 5th was a beautiful day! It was also Nanny's birthday!

We headed down to Sandbanks to spend the day at the beach.



The water was really cold.....



.....so we just put our feet in the water.




Of course, the bravest actually went in! All of Rich's niece's and nephews --- Sean, Sascha, Dan (Sasch's boyfriend), Ryan, Amy (Ryan's girlfriend), Leah and Jimmie (Leah's boyfriend) -- did go for a very cold swim. Brave souls!!!!!



The rest of us played on the very windy beach....


... more proof I was on vacation!


Sam, digging in the sand.

Luke (with his mom, Leah in the background), proudly displaying his sand castle!


Josh, doing I don't know what....



After lunch we went back home to prepare Nanny's BBQ dinner. We had the whole gang over to celebrate. The nieces and nephews stayed out in the sun too long and each one came sporting a nice bright red sunburn.... Sam did not make most of the barbecue. He flaked out quite early he was so tired!!!!



The beginning of "The Best Water Fight Ever"!!!


After dinner, Josh and Luke decided to "challenge" Uncle Brian in a water fight. The boys had squirt guns, Brian grabbed the fire hose from the back of one of the cabins near us! Both kids were soaked to the core (sorry, no pics of that unfortunately), but very happy for standing up to "Scary Uncle Brian"!!! We'll get him next time!!!!

Since it was Nanny's birthday, Josh and Luke brought her birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday to her. We all decided you could not ask for a better birthday to have your whole family with you, all happy and healthy (aside from the sunburns)!





We had another, fun filled, exciting, VERY BUSY day!

More Sandy Balls coming up in Part 6!







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