The Beachy Beacherton...very looooong

Guess I am on a roll...look at me posting 2 two days in a row! I am giving my self a pat on the back.

Anyway, let's bounce back again and meet some of the grooviest people around Uncle Austin, Aunt Katherine, and our hero's cousins Jayde, Simone, and Haven..they rocked our summer! This fantabulous five-som invited us to go on an adventure with them to The Outer Banks for an entire week...an entire week in a a fancy house right on the beach with a million bedrooms, 3 huge jacuzzi tubs, pool, heck this place even had an elevator! (never mind that the mom's had a tricky time figuring it out) We felt extremely spoiled!!!

We arrived at the beach late at night, and immediately got stuck on the one road leading to the house. We were beginning to get annoyed until we saw a helicopter lift off from the road and med-evac (what we learned later to be) 2 people. Scary start huh? Don't worry it was all happy happy joy joy once we got to the house. In order to preserve memories but not bore the crap out of you I will attempt to summarize each day in Limerick format...Ready???

Day 1:

There once were some kids at the beachy

Not burned yet their skin still looked peachy

In the pool most they played

O'er the sand the wind stayed

So the Ocean they didn't quite reachy.

(it was REALLY windy which made us not want to deal with sand in eyes and complaints of the cold...we walked on the sand but didn't dive in! Lego's and Bakugan kept them entertained as well!)

Day 2:

Next the kids jumped into the Atlantic

It was warm, and alive and "GIGANTIC"

Catching crabs great fun (the crawl on the beach kind)

From the waves they did RUN

When caught crabs disappeared they were frantic!!

(Jayde caught a little crab and made it a home but unfortunately in the night some hungry animal came onto the deck and ate the meat of the crab leaving the bottom of the shell with all the legs still attached!! Not a happy camper. We also attempted to teach the kids how to play badmitten...epic fail)

Day 3:

On this day kids and dads went to town

To see just who could win a race crown

Round the track we all drove

Played putt-putt on the cove

This they did while the sun beat them down!

(Ok it was defintiely 1 million degrees this day and we felt it on the slick track and the golf course...after burning our hands on the seat belts from the cars and playing 9 holes on a course completely devoid of ANY shade or relief from the sun the kids were more than happy to bow ut early and hit the pool again. Seriously who builds a mini golf course in the Outer Banks that has no shade?!?!?! Shameful, but I digress...)

Day 4:

On Thursday was more fun in the sand

We built "farms" (or as I call them, remand)

Buckets full of the sludge

Mussels needed a nudge

And some beetles that would burrow in our hands

(these little guys were weird and hard to catch, but Coulter and Jayde spent like 5 hours total this day digging in the sand looking for them. They were really sweet (and I say that subjectively) and made Simone a farm since she had been traumatized by the water on an earlier date. We also had a funtime baby-sitting the cousins while Aunt and Uncle Awesome went on a date. It was spaghetti night and Haven found it especially enjoyable)

Day 5:

Nature Centers are really hip scenes

With bamboo we all fished for marine (life)

Kids got bored on the dock

Picked at poop from the flock

Then watched UP on the really big screen

(these are getting gooberier and gooberier...sorry. Anyway this day we went to a clinic about fishing, dodged about 2,000 piles of goose poo, and then went to see UP at the theatre. It was perfect timing! As the movie started, outside it poured rain and continued throughout the whole thing...but miraculously as the movie ended so did the rain!! So, we were able to spend our last night at the beach. Don't you love it when that happens??)

Other Highlights from the trip that didn't fit into the limericks:

Playing Rock Band 2 with the kids was a trip!!!

Apples to Apples and Pass the Pigs won the kids hearts

Lil Man Learned how to body surf...after multiple face plants and near drownings he got really good at it.

Simone found spikey weed balls on the deck and christened them puffer fish :)

The fudgery was AMAZING!!!!

Lil Man braved the pool with just floaties...no life jacket!

Lil Man jumped into the pool by himself for the first time!! (technically I had to bribe him with a dollar but that is beside the point)

The souvenirs that the kids picked were not neccessarily beach related...Coulter chose a jet and a submarine that runs on bakg soda. Ironically he chose rings with a beach scene in them for his frinds souvenirs??? Odd...

All three kids could have had their own room in that massive house, but they chose to sleep all in one room with bunkbeds...really cute that they wanted to be all together.

All in all the kids were FABULOUS with each other...we had maybe one or two minor scuffles after 5 days of sleep deprivation, but they were nice and friendly and happy 9/10ths of the time and what more can a mommy ask for on vacation???

OK I know this hasn't been my brightest moment in blogging, but I did it anyway! I gotta be me right? :) Thanks SOOOOOOOOO much Fabulous Five-som for making our summer start out with a huge bang! Hopefully next time we get to spoil you rotten the way you did for us. You are the best!!