To the Beach We Go

We took the kids to the condo for a weekend.  It was a little cold but that didn't make it any less fun.  We got there pretty late on Friday night.  The kids were so excited to be there that they spent at least an hour just running back and forth down the hallways.  Maryann was so funny.  She can really hang with Hogan and Lauralee now and wants to do whatever they are doing.  Lauralee got to sleep on the top bunk of a bunk bed for the first time while we were there.  She is pretty proud of that.  Maryann almost got eaten by sea gulls because she made the mistake of dropping a cracker on the sand while we were at the beach...they appeared out of no where and were only about 6 inches from our faces...SCARY.  Then they formed a circle around us and kept inching forward.  There were at least 15 of them.  I am pretty scared of birds and felt like I was actually in the movie, The Birds.  Luckily Hogan chased them all off for us, which he thoroughly enjoyed doing.  We took the kids to John's Pass and got them ice cream.  Hogan picked Superman Ice cream and Lauralee picked Bubblegum Ice cream.  I will be kind of sad when the gross flavors  start to actually seem gross to them.  Maryann chose to opt out of ice cream... to make her Mama happy.  The gulf was freezing, it felt like a glass of ice water.  But L and H still managed to get soaked and preceded to beg us to take them in swimming.  Neither Adam nor I were up for that one.  Maybe next time.  MK liked playing in the sand but she agreed with us that the water was a little too cold.