14 Aug 2010
Today we went to the beach!!! We never really got a summer vacation what with all the Air Force and teaching jobs stress so we hurried down to the Malaquite Beach on the South Padre Island National Seashore this morning. It was a perfect day to go to the beach. The weather was beautiful, the water was really really warm, the rangers weren't charging any admission to the park for some reason, I only got attacked by two tar balls and the visitor's center has free showers.
As it turns out, Holly LUVA-LUV-LOVES the beach. As soon as we got there she ran out into the waves and wouldn't come back. She would just keep going deeper and deeper and laughing her head off when a wave knocked her down. When the waves got to be too much for her to stand up she would crawl. It was all we could do to keep her from just washing out to sea. I dubbed her "The Salty Sea Baby".
Tyler had a really fun time playing in the waves too. Out in the surf, there are series of sandbars that run parallel to the beach. They are under the water but make it possible for people to go way out into the water to play in really big waves (you can see the tiny people in the first picture.) Tyler really wanted to go out there so Jared went with him and he had a really fun time. Derek not so much. He liked staying on the shore and building sand castles.
This is my photo tribute to Josh and Sydney Christiansen.
What a super day!
2 comments:
That looks so fun. Nabby is the same way with water. Whether it's Lake Michigan or the local kiddie pool all she wants is for me to let go. I love the last photo.
We appreciate the photo tribute. You know the jump picture is the best there is.
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