Sunday, June 19, 2011

Things To Do When On Vacation

We were staying in a Model  Townhouse  while we were on vacation at Sunset Beach. (Uncle Dan was working there, selling the homes.)  So we took some things to do when we could not go to the ocean to swim.  Here is some art work that Ava and Carson did. 
Ava's is flowers and butterflies. 
And Carson's was about race cars. 
This was our first day on the beach.  We all got a little bit too much sun that first day.
The waves were pretty gentle and the slope was great for kids.  So we did not have to worry. 


Uncle Dan had boogie boards for the children.  They had to hang on to them because the wind would try to blow them away. 
At quiet times, they played with the laptop.  We could not get on line so Ava writes a story.  Ava's story is posted  just a couple blogs past this one. 
We went out to eat.  The first night we ate up on the balcony at Twin Lakes in Sunset Beach. 
The Resort had a workout room so we went there a few times to get exercise. 
Ava doing sit ups. 
We found a lot of little creatures.  This moth was beautiful. 
We had a little buddy on the swimming pool fence.  He came out every day to change colors for us.
The swimming pool was just below our balcony.  There were dragon flys at the pool.

We built castles in he sand. 
We gathered seashells at Ocean Isle beach. 

We took a ferry to bald Head Island.  
This is the beautiful land of Old Baldy Lighthouse.  We climbed about 285 steps to the top of the lighthouse.  Nana did not make it to the top. Everyone else did!
We visited a Turtle Conservatory and saw lots of creatures there. 
During quiet time, there was some story telling taking place.  Shhhhhhh, it's quiet time. 
Our Resort was inner coastal so there was an ocean canal out our back deck.   We walked over the marsh lands to the wharf and had lunch out there one day.
Were were lots of seagulls and pelicans to view. 
Carson and Ava road their scooters out across the marsh to the boat dock. 

We watched hundreds of boats go up and down the canal.  It was a ton of fun.

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