Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend Beach Trip


May was somewhat a crazy month – Mike traveled 75% of it between two trips to St. Louis, the ICSC convention in Las Vegas and being a vendor at a conference at Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia. We had originally planned to make a vacation out of it for Memorial Day weekend, but then the boys and I almost didn’t partly due to a poor weather prediction. Mike and his partner Bill left on Saturday and I had a great day with the boys – running on the off-road trails, going to the pool for the first time of the season (in the rain) and Chuck E. Cheese.

Mike called and asked if the boys and I would dive down to join him on Sunday, and Bill’s wife Phoung drove with us. Jekyll isn’t a very developed island – no chain or fast food restaurants, which is GREAT except when you’re looking for an affordable place to eat with two little ones. The good news is we saw some deer and other wildlife while looking for a restaurant, a raccoon at the restaurant (we were sitting outside) and Mike saw an alligator while golfing.

This weekend was the boys first time in the water and they LOVED it. It was so fun to see the excitement for both Collin and Carson being in the pool (and ocean) and Carson even surprisingly liked the sand. I truly enjoyed my time with them and it was a great surprise mini-vacation!

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