Gotta Get Away

Since it was Mom's last weekend here and the weather was supposed to be nice, we thought it would be fun to take an overnight trip to the beach.  Alan had been anxiously awaiting this trip all week.  Not because he was excited about the beach - rather, he was interested in seeing how much crap necessary stuff we would have to take.  Well, to begin with, we had to take two cars.  The stroller alone takes up the entire cargo area of my car, so we would need the back of his car for everything else.  Plus any free spot in either car.  So we had two vehicles filled to the brim.  For one night.  I'm sure that's the new norm for us.  I have to give Alan props, though, because he didn't complain.  In the past he would have, but this time he didn't.  Anyway, there's a Navy port with a beach nearby called White Beach that has cabins, campers and camp spots you can rent.  We opted for a log cabin and it was fantastic.  This was our cabin and our views:

We even got a little chance to relax:

Here's us getting mad at Adam for almost ruining that relaxation by rocking the chair so hard that it hit the cabin and possibly woke up the babies:

It didn't, so he got to hit the playground:

Our first day there was cloudy and a little windy, therefore chilly.  We walked down to the beach to hunt for shells and Mom took our picture from the cabin, which sat up on a bluff.  See us?:

We stopped along the way and snapped this one of us in front of the ship that was at port:

The next day was a beautiful, warm, clear, sunny day so we all hit the beach.  Anaya made the most of the beach tent:

Alan and I took the Monster for a walk in the ocean (the reef goes out pretty far so we can take a pretty good walk).  Here are some fun things we saw on our walk (we also saw two fish eggs, but failed to take pictures):

A sea cucumber

A bunch of starfish that looked like this:

 

and this puffer fish:

All in all, it was a great little getaway.  Maybe just what we needed.  Never mind that Anaya cried pretty much the entire time we were at dinner.  The restaurant wasn't crowded.  And never mind that Audie coughed/cried during breakfast the next day.  It's not like he coughed on the buffet.  We all survived our first overnight trip and that's what really matters.  And we actually had fun!  Maybe this won't be so tough, after all.