Weekend at the Beach - Part Two

Sorry for the delay in posting. Life seems to be running away from me these days. Anyway, back to the story about our weekend at the beach. Saturday night we all celebrated my dad's birthday. Here are some pictures.



Claire helping Pap open a present they can use together: Fun Golf!



Aunt Stacy feeding Claire a yummy bite of chocolate cake with peanut butter icing:



Sunday morning started early for Claire and I - 4:30 to be exact. I don't know why Claire decided to wake up that early, but despite all of my best efforts, I couldn't convince her to go back so sleep, and so started our day. Most people who know me know that I LOVE sleep (a little too much at times). Therefore, I was not functioning quite well that day. However, we still managed to have a little fun. Here is Claire and Aunt Stacy with a bubble gun:



We finally ventured to the beach (I know, the whole reason why we went away for the weekend). Not knowing how Claire was going to like the beach - especially the sand, we walked down to the beach with our sandcastle molds and shovel. Surprisingly, Claire loved it! Every previous beach trip was a bust because she hated the sand. She would refuse to even stand on it. However, she finally decided to turn the corner and accept that the beach is fun afterall. Here are the pictures to prove it:





Mom, Dad, Erica, Tim, Claire, & Allie (Debbie, Stacy, and Jimmy not pictured):



Sunday afternoon and evening, everyone left for home except Debbie, Claire and I. So the three of us went to a fun playground Sunday evening.

Weekend at the Beach - Part One

Last weekend, we took a trip to the beach with my family to celebrate my dad's birthday and also just to get away and have some fun. :) We went to Stone Harbor, NJ (where we always go) and stayed at my step-aunt and uncle's house. Saturday, we went to the Cape May County Zoo, which was awesome, because the cooler weather meant a lot of the animals were out and active. The only disappointment was that we hoped to see some Kookaburras, and they weren't in their cages. We explained to Claire that the Kookaburras must be on vacation, like we were. I said that maybe they took a vacation to Harrisburg and tried to visit us, but we weren't home either. She accepted the answer and we moved on. To see why we were so interested in the Kookaburras, click here.

Here are some pictures from the zoo.

This camel looked like it was about to spit, so I quickly took the picture and ran away!

After the zoo, we went into "town" in Stone Harbor to check out a boat show and seafood festival. Claire took some interest in a few of the boats. Thankfully, they were on the lower end cost-wise (compared to the $50,000 speedboats).