a few vacation pics

During our trip we spent two days visiting Clearwater beach - one of our favorite spots by Dan's parents. In the old pre-kid days, Dan and i spent our time swimming in the ocean, and when we were exhausted from that, collapsing in the sand with a good book. This time, with two young girls to watch, we took the divide and conquer approach. Dan spent his time with Hua Hua, whose favorite activity was to search for beautiful seashells and put them in her pail to take home. And I took Rachel, whose favorite activity was to run as fast as she could in one direction, stop, jump around in the sand, do a little song and dance number, maybe pick up some wet slippery sand with her bare hand and put it in a pail, then run as fast as possible in the other direction and repeat.

Once or twice rachel tried to "help" hua hua collect seashells. by helping she struck her shovel to a big sandy mound of cracked seashell pieces and dumped them into hua hua's pail of special, meticulously cleaned and near perfect shells - to her sister's dismay. Rachel would say something like, "help hua Hua," while hua hua would be near hysterical from the help. ahh, sisterhood. gotta love it.

will post more pics and stories as soon ....

Comments

[Trudy Nelson]

I'm so glad you had such a wonderful (though exausting) trip. The girls look so happy and sweet. Those are the best memories! Hope to see you soon.

[jodi]

The weather looked perfect! Your story of the two girls made me laugh!