Vacation Fun

We had a really great time on our vacation. I am sorry that I am just now posting about it, but we have been so busy with VBS that I was not able to sit down and get it done. We left early Friday morning (6/29) for Gary's grandmother's get together--a small family reunion. We spent time with her and everyone else until Monday morning early and then drove to begin our vacation. Our first stop was NASA, which was by far Zach's favorite. We spent most of Monday there.

On Tuesday we drove to the beach and enjoyed some time at a boardwalk with lots of rides and then drove down a little to play in the sand. The beach was not as pretty as I would have liked it to be. There were huge piles of kelp that you had to wade through to get to the water...not that you would want to get in the water because there were signs posted everywhere to beware of swimming due to bacteria levels. Nice!!!

The next morning we went to a Health Museum that is very kid-oriented. Here we are "inside" of some body parts. We got to see a show where they made various foods explode and fizz and do neat stuff. (Yeah, mentos and diet coke were part of the show.)

Once we were done there, we hit the road to check into our next hotel and prepare to go to Sea World on Thursday. We caught a fireworks show that evening, but it was a little disappointing. (Interestingly enough, we saw a much better show here in our own hometown the weekend after the 4th.) We had good luck with the weather, despite the rain storms. We were lucky that they hit on the days we were traveling or inside. At Sea World it sprinkled a little, but only when we were inside a show, so we were not affected by it.

By Friday we were pretty exhausted. We slept in and loaded up with five minutes to spare before out 11 am checkout time. We stopped through a few towns and did some shopping and then headed back home. I picked up an old antique school desk and some jewlery.

When we got home, we had to immediately get into VBS preparations so that was what we did all weekend and then all of this week, but now we are done! It was a great success, but I am definitely in need of a nap and my house is in need of some TLC. We have somewhat unpacked, but I am hoping to finish that up today and get things back into order.

Zach said he wished that we could always be on vacation, but we reminded him that it is the fact of vacation being a special time that makes it so fun. I have to say, though, that I can't wait until the next one!