Let's just say our trip started with rain and ended with rain....
We got our tent up just in time for the bottom to drop and thankfully grabbed some frisbees and balls just in time to all pile in to the empty tent! We waited the rain out throwing balls and listening to a very vivid imagination of our 4 year old as she entertained us with stories.
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You may have a paci addiction if....
Perhaps it's all the traveling?
This girl keeps life interesting! :-) |
The rain did stop and we were able to get everything set up, cooked and ate dinner and then made it to the beach! Emma loved the beach especially the sand. This was her first trip to the beach. Caileigh loved riding the waves on the boogie board - such a daredevil! :-)
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Please excuse the hair - she wanted it down and
I figured we were on vacation just let it be! :-)
We'll just say she's going for the "beach hair" look... |
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| Fascination |
One day we rented bikes and enjoyed riding around the island and visiting the historic parts. Caileigh loved seeing all the "nature that God created." It did get a little hot and Emma didn't particularly love falling asleep at the end in the bike seat. We did all love our ice cream stop at the local Dairy Queen, however! :-)
We also explored the driftwood beach, saw lots of crabs, swam in a tidal pool, built sandcastles and played putt-putt.
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| Driftwood beach |
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| Loving life |
My parents and Aunt Katie (whom we hadn't seen since Easter) joined us. We sure enjoyed having them with us! We swam some more, watched a dolphin swim right in front of us, built some more castles, made s'more's, and heard all about beach project that Katie went on. :-)
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| We love Aunt Katie! |
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| She hates baths but somehow one by the campfire was fun.... |
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| Aunt Katie and her "mini-me's" |
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| Sleeping like a baby |
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| As if the ocean wasn't enough water... |
Aunt Laura and Uncle John later joined us and we enjoyed swimming some more with them but did not enjoy playing football along the beach as it ended up in Stephen loosing his wedding ring... :-( We searched for most of the day with no luck and were pretty disappointed. We ended the day by taking the typical white/khaki family beach pictures for my Grandparents 60th anniversary collaberated family gift. Caileigh made my day as I had made the girls pillowcase dresses for the pictures and she thanked me over and over for making her a beautiful dress. She's so easy to please. :-) Perhaps I should start sewing more for them! :-)
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| Pittmans |
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| Oberts |
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| The Family |
We attempted to play putt-putt with the whole group, however the rain came, power on the island went out and we went to bed early! It rained all night and thankfully our tent leaked very minimally, however, we had to pack up camp in the pouring rain! Truth be told our tent is still trying to dry out on our back porch as it has rained on average every other day since returning to Augusta.... It's been a month and it won't stay dry long enough for the whole thing to dry out and I am not packing it up wet to mold in my house!
Despite the rain and the lost wedding ring we really did enjoy some time as a family at the beach and time with my family when they joined us!
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