Let the Beach Party Begin

Now on to our first full day at the beach.  We started out by spending the morning at the bay, which is what we did almost every morning actually. It was about a 30 second walk from our house.

 
I was trying to get a candid shot of Audrey and Chloe in the sand but my little poser caught me.
 
Chloe and Luke get along perfectly but Chloe was SO jealous of Audrey. She did not like not being the baby of the group.


 
I guess this was Audrey's version of the hole in the sand.


After some bay time and lunch we walked about a minute from our house to the ferry and rode over to the big beach.  My brother Steven was excited about the trip for months so that we could play beach volleyball. I begrudgingly joined a team but was quickly recongnized as dead weight and allowed to sit out.

After volleyball my kids got their first taste of the waves. They loved it but the bay is a lot less scary to their paranoid mother.

Riding the ferry for the first of many times







 
FYI: Seth's back is sandy, not hairy.








Sunday night Dave and Val were in charge of dinner and after some yummy grilled chicken we had our first trivia night. Kristen's boyfriend Niki is a teacher but he also hosts trivia a couple nights a week at a restaurant so he brought some of his past games and hosted for us. I was on a team with Seth and Jeff and we won. My team won every time we played actually. I should disclose that we draw teams out of a hat and I landed on Jeff's team every time so that may have had something to do with my success.

The beach days all blur together some so I don't have an accurate play by play so if I miss anything and you were there feel free to plug it in to the comments. I am sure we also watched Olympics, biked and ate at least 25 pounds of M&M's on this day but if there was anything else that I forgot throw it out there.

P.S. I slept so well last night. Even though everyone offered us lovely accomodations on our road trip Seth and I both agreed that there is nothing like your own shower and your own bed.