Crystal Beach - Tuesday

Todd took the boys to the beach on Tuesday morning, and I went to The Big Store (that is really the name) to get groceries. It is a full grocery store, souveneir shop, and Ace Hardware. I didn't get any pictures of the super exciting grocery shopping.

The boys wanted to be buried in the sand. They had been talking about this for days before we left for the beach.


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Leo caught a hermit crab.


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Our cabana.


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You can drive on the beach here. I thought this might be annoying, but it wasn't a big deal. People were always getting stuck at the entrance right behind us. There was a guy who kept coming to pull people out. We decided maybe he is employed by the city b/c he was always there to help.


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My kinda beach. Empty.


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Love this laugh.


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I made this huge bag for our beach toys. It worked great.


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I found some sand molds at Walgreens that were US and international landmarks. They were fun!


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We take our cast iron skillet everywhere.


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Loved this house. So pretty.


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We wore Henry out.


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We had steak the first night. It was cool enough to eat outside at night!


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Crystal Beach - Monday Part II

We got to our house on Crystal Beach, and everyone was thrilled with the location. Leo had had a little fit when I showed him the pictures that he did not think it was close enough to the beach. He likes to be ON THE BEACH for his vacations, you know. Blah. But it turns out that Mommy did ok, and this one more than met his criteria. We were on the third row back from the beach, but there were no houses on the lots in front of us....sort of. Construction was beginning on one. It was a very short walk to the beach - probably shorter than the walks from condos we've had in the past.

The view from our patio.


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Getting on the beach for the first time.


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Our house is the one over the left side of my hat. Not the big blue one....other side.


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All cleaned up and ready to go out to dinner.

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There was no wait for dinner and it wasn't crowded. I officially had a huge crush on this beach at that point.

Ships going by while we ate dinner.


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There were other boys to play with at the restaurant.

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FRIED PICKLES!!!!

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Sunset on a point-and-shoot.

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Another ship goes by...

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They got the ship to blow his horn. Yay!


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More sunset.


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Came back to the house...time to go crabbing!


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We only caught this one on the first night, and it died pretty quickly.


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