Our "Big Water" vacation

Well, we have been to the beach and back. I must honestly say that it was a relative "uneventful" trip. No territorial marking, at least not out of the water, and no major melt downs. We arrived Saturday, May 12th and returned Wed. May 16th. The weather was best on Saturday and Sunday. But, it was "red flag" days on Monday and Tuesday. However, it didn't stop us from enjoying the outdoors. On the "red flag" days we played in the sand and the pool. The boys called the ocean the "bi awah" and the pool the "biby awah". ("bi" is pronouced as big without the g). CB preferred the "biby awah" because he was free from mama and daddy's hands. BB was indifferent. Although, he enjoyed the sand a little more than CB. CB never stopped. He was like Forrest Gump, just ran and ran. It was hard getting a frontal view picture of him (as you will see in the pics that I post). Even today, the boys asked about the "bi awah" and the "biby awah".

We did perform a bit of a dog and pony show at DeSoto's Seafood Kitchen. We ate there the last night of our stay. Just before being seated, CB took a pretty hard fall off the deck steps onto the asphalt which caused a big gasp from the crowd waiting to eat. And on the way out, JB picked BB up to put him on his shoulder only to have the turning ceiling fan hit poor BB in the head. Not much harm was done, however it did knock off a bunch of dust landing on those of us following behind.

We enjoyed seafood from the Original Oyster House (our personal favorite), Sea n Suds, and DeSoto's Seafood Kitchen. I got my fill of fried crab claws and JB got his fill of fried shrimp. The boys got their fill of grilled cheese, hot dogs, and popcorn shrimp.

As JB and a friend of ours said, maybe the Memphis Zoo wasn't for nothing. It did show us that the boys were not ready for an aquarium and zoo trip to Atlanta as we had originally planned. It was definitely the right decision to vacation at the beach.

We are feel blessed to have spent this time as a family and thank God for giving us this opportunity.

As for pictures, I am embarrassed to say that I took 900! Obviously too many to include in the blog, so instead I am creating a slide show just like the one at the bottom of the page. Instead it will contain only our beach pictures. Give me a few days to get this done, I just finished cropping and resizing all the pics. After this process, I did elimanate the number of pictures to 750. (I'll blog about my picture taking in another blog).

Until next time, HB