Random vacation thoughts...

What a great trip! The kids got along great! The only time we heard any complaints among them was over the choice of bedtime music, and even that was pretty polite. We absolutely wore them OUT! The last full day we were there, Jeff and Brian brought sandwiches down for us to eat by the pool. Asa hadn't touched his sandwich... he was sitting there with his head propped up in both hands. When I asked him what was wrong he told me that he couldn't eat his sandwich because he couldn't hold him head up... could he PLEASE take it upstairs and lay down? Wow. Success!

Twice we spotted schools of dolphins from our balcony of our room. We found lots of seashells, and even caught some pretty big crabs out at the sandbar. (Asa said that he likes crabs best when they're dead... so we can eat 'em!) Asa assisted in making a sandcastle with a neighboring family. As the father dug in the sand he came across a dead minnow. Asa's eyes lit up. Can I have that dead fish?!?! I can feed it to my crab! I think the man was amused. Sure enough, the crab chowed down.

The boys got to sleep in a bunkbed (rotating the top bunk with Anna) and loved it. Now they want to know when we can bunk their beds, which luckily is a possibility as long as we can find the ladder in Mom's barn.

One day he and Jeff were hanging out in shallow water and Addison asked him, "Daddy? Do sharks live in lakes or in the ocean?" "The ocean." Jeff replied. He thought really hard for a while and asked, "Do they swim in shallow water or out in the deep?" Jeff told him they swam in both. Addison sounded a little more nervous with each question. "Do they swim in the daytime or at night?" Again, the answer was both. Without a word, he stuck pretty close to the shore the rest of the trip.

Hey, at least this time was based on fact... unlike when Jeff told him before we went to the circus (even as we pulled into the parking deck and walked into the stadium) that the tigers came out and ate little boys in the audience.