Our Trip: Part 2: Play time

Alright, I know we have been back for almost 2 weeks and I still haven't wrote all about our trip. The last post took me about an hour to upload all the pictures, because I have them on 3 different memory cards, so I have dreaded posting more pictures for that reason. Sorry for slacking off.

Lets see...where did I leave off....oh right, the beach. Well after we went to the beach we went to this wonderful restaurant right on the beach for dinner. It was my mother-in-laws birthday that day so we ate somewhere special. This seafood restaurant was so nice and it was nice to eat fresh fish. While we waited for the food, there was a dance floor (where no was was dancing) and the kids just loved it. It was dark and had a mirror ball going and they just had the best time running around and dancing. (I have video of it, but for some reason can't get my videos to download at the current time).

Here are some pictures of the kids at the restaurant. You can see by their little faces that they got a little sun kissed at the beach. They had the best time together.

Cousins--Riley, Jack and Adriana

Once we got back to Montgomery, we wanted to entertain the kids still. Kara, Ryan's sister, had a great idea to take the kids down to this "splash pad". It was in the downtown part and free and open to the public. Since that Monday was a holiday, it seemed like the downtown was a ghost town, which was good. We had the whole place to ourselves. I decided not to get in the water, but to take pictures. They were all in there having a good ol' time and I was yelling to them, that it was starting to rain. They couldn't really hear me over the fountains, so I was trying to gather all the stuff and head for shelter. Well, come to find out, there really was no shelter out there. They saw me running around like a mad woman and realized that it was pouring down rain. Luckily, there had been some big concert event in that area the weekend before and there was one little pavilion still up. We all took off running for that covered area. While we were waiting for the rain to pass, we let the kids eat a picnic lunch we had packed for them. It was actually really cool how it turned out and we had a lot of fun sitting there with the rain falling all around us. The storm passed by quickly and the kids were able to go run around a little more in the water. We had a great time and am glad Kara suggested it.

Here are pictures from the splash pad.

We had to climb a ton of stairs to

get to the splash pad. The kids

loved all the climbing. The adults

did not!

Ryan and Adriana in the splash pad. She wouldn't

get down and run around like her cousins did.


Having a blast!


Kara and her kids, Jack and Riley

Our picnic area. At least we were staying dry.

Here are some extra pictures. Adriana loves her cousins so much. Here are some shots of them together.

Poor Riley doesn't look like she wants to be

hugged. Ready or not, here comes Adriana.

Anything for a photo op.

Adriana and Jack

Adriana and Riley. They are only about 2.5 mo

apart in age, so we tend to dress them alike. They

love playing together and being girly girls.

Here is a picture of Savannah and Adriana.

Adriana LOVED Savannah (who is a friend of

the family).

We really had a good time on our trip. We enjoyed seeing friends and family and getting to go to the beach, for Adriana's first experience. We had a great time and look forward to doing it again. Thank you Jim and Sandy for you hospitality and good food, we loved it! We love all our family in the South and wish we could see you more.