A Day in the Life: Vacation...finally

That's finally as in, I'm finally blogging about it, and also finally as in it felt like we'd never actually get to go! I was going to wait to post about this until I had gotten pictures from my mom and Wendi. But since nearly a month has past and I still don't have their pictures (not their fault) I figured I'd better get my post up here before I forget what all happened that week.

The kids enjoyed lots time with grandpa and grandma. And lots of books were read.

There wasn't enough room at the table for everyone, so the kids got relegated to island bar. But they thought it was great having a "table" just their height...and having access to all food during meal time.

We spent a lot of time at the pool. We would go down in the morning after breakfast and stay till lunch time, and then head back out after naps and stay until supper. And sometimes we even went again after supper. :)

The afternoon we got there it was only about 70 degrees. Not terrible, but a little chilly when you got out of the pool. And for a tired little buddy, being "toud" was a good excuse to snuggle up under a towel.

The kids were content to play in the kiddie pool for the first few days, esp if Uncle Daniel joined them pretending to be a shark and chasing them around.

The guys headed out to golf one evening, but it happened to be the night they closed early to mow, so they just hit a few balls right outside the condo instead. They did go later in the week though.

Carter testing out his golfing skills. He was pretty sure he needed to be one of the guys all week and was always heartbroken when he couldn't join them for golfing, fishing, etc.

After talking non-stop about going fishing for 2 days, we finally took the kids out on the boat. They quickly found out it wasn't quite as exciting as they thought it'd be. It probably would have helped had the fishing not been absolutely terrible. Despite several hours of fishing per day, only 5 fish were caught all week. The guys were pretty sure they were somewhere in that 15,000 acre lake, they just weren't sure where.

One day we went down to the lake beach area. It was a little gross, so we didn't stay long before heading back to the pool.

The observers, who prefered not to get in the green water or get sandy. :)

The green thick water was one thing, but the multiple dead fish scattered around beach were quite another. Yuck!

Aunt Wendi discovered some very willing helpers when putting on her lotion, and put them to work multiple times that week lotioning her legs. The kids thought it was the greatest thing.

Wrapped up and heading back from the pool....again

After the first few days the kids discovered that the big pool was way more fun. They loved playing basketball and jumping off the sides. Thankfully there was lots of people willing to play to with them when Luke and I got wore out from catching them, or lifting them up to the hoops. They took great naps all week! :)