Flack Beach Trip (Part 2)

Thursday morning, we started off easy. Uncle Day Day was coming up in the afternoon so we wanted to wait and go to the beach with him. We lounged around the house for a little while.

The boys enjoyed stuffing their faces with banana. :)

Of course, mornings seem to start sometime between five and six every day, so we had a lot of time to try and fill before we got to lunch and nap. The kids started to get a little restless, so we took them out to walk up and down the pier.

The boys enjoyed walking all the way to the end of the pier and they loved looking out at the ocean. They also liked looking through the planks to see the ocean down below them. I thought they would be more interested in the fish that some of the fisherman had caught, but they could have cared less. It didn't take long for them to lose interest though and be ready to move on to the next thing! Michael and I took our kids to get some ice cream/italian ice and then back to the beach house. Gramma bought kites for Lucy and Harper to decorate which they enjoyed. 

After lunch/naptime, it was time to go to the beach with Uncle Day Day! Lucy had been excited all week about this!

Uncle Day Day and Aunt Lauren dug a big hole for the kids and they had a great time climbing in and out of it. Harper like to slide down into the hole and Lucy loved to jump in when a wave would come up and fill it with some water.

Lucy enjoyed playing mermaid in the water.

 Uncle Day Day is not as cute a mermaid as Lucy. . . . 

 After all our beach fun, we came back and Uncle Day Day cooked us a huge dinner. I wish I had a picture of all the food that was covering the table, but we were all too busy eating!

There were thunderstorms happening when we went to bed on Thursday night. Around 4 AM, there was the loudest clap of thunder I have ever heard. It woke everyone in the house up . . .except for my three boys!! The thunder even caused the smoke alarm in our room to sound its test so they slept through all that beeping too! When we got up in the morning, we realized that several of the breakers had tripped and that the cable box downstairs as well as the TV no longer worked.  So what do you do when there's no TV? Read a book, of course!

Charlie wanted to read Pappy's book!

Uncle Day Day had to leave to go back to work . . . 

We took the kids to the beach that morning, but they were so tired after our eventful evening and just not really in the mood to play for long. Michael and I took the kids to Wings so that the could have a change of scenery. We let them pick out a small toy to play with - they were very excited. Lucy got a shell bracelet, much like the lovely beach jewelry I used to get as a child. Alex picked out a blue monster truck and Charlie got a yellow VW beetle.

After Wings, we drove around looking for a playground. We didn't find one, but we found an amazing deli called Archibald's. MMMMM!!! We came back to the beach house and had a little dessert before naptime.

We quickly found out that due to the storm the previous night, the air conditioning upstairs had quit working. It became unbearable upstairs and so no one was able to nap. The air conditioning repairman came to save the day though so we would be able to sleep that evening. While he was working and we were waiting to leave for dinner, we took the kids down to the beach to take our Flack Family of Five feet picture.

I wanted to take a picture of all three, but with no nap, this is the best you are going to get! ;)

We met the Thrifts for dinner that night in Calabash. It was a yummy meal and good to get to visit with everyone, even if it was such a short time. Lucy had a good time talking to Nathan. I think they would be good buddies if we lived closer. As we were leaving, we saw the giant shrimp outside and reenacted a photo of Lucy and her Daddy from when she was little. Here is the one from our trip this year. . .

And here's the one from when she was 3 months old. . . 

We had a great time. Lots of good food, lots of fun activities, and lots of quality time with family.  :)