Vacation was a great time!! The kids and I had so much fun with my parents (and Bogey) that no one wanted to leave. Marisah requested an extra day, so we stayed an extra day, and then the day that we had rescheduled to leave Harrison woke up saying that we weren't leaving and he was making plans for that day. Sadly, we did have to leave and eventually get the kids back home. But they will definitely have memories for a long time to come. We did a lot of swimming and Marisah mastered a back flip, Harrison learned how to do flips and worked hard on his treading water. I taught him a couple of years ago, but he always got a little too frantic in the deep end and would end up splashing around rapidly and then sinking to the bottom. This time he was able to get the technique down. We also went on a dolphin cruise which was pretty awesome- except for Rissy getting a little sea sick and I got a little bit of heat exhaustion. We saw a ton of dolphins and then we met up with a shrimp boat who gave us some of the awesome finds they had in their shrimp nets. They had a sand shark, an eel and a sand dollar. Marisah loved the story of the sand dollar! When you break open the sand dollar there are 5 doves inside that form a star and is said to be the star of Bethlehem. I didn't get the full legend because that was when I had to step inside the boat to get out of the sun. But she enjoyed the story and ended up picking out a dried up sand dollar as her souvenir. In addition to the dolphin cruise we also went to a museum where the kids were able to touch a bunch of sea stars, as well as feed them. There were also hermit crabs and horseshoe crabs in the touch tank and they saw the horseshoe crab being fed as well. We also went mini-golfing, played some backyard baseball, and went to the beach where they went pretty far out in the waves and had so much fun jumping in the waves and boogie boarding! Everyone thought the vacation went way too fast but Harrison is planning a Christmas trip and Marisah was planning trips well into her 20's. I apparently still have to drive them and take them!
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| Getting ready to set sail on the dolphin cruise! |
On the drive home I ended up stopping in Salisbury to have lunch with Jess and decided to show the kids around the SU campus. They had so much fun walking around and asking me questions about college. They asked if you could chew gum and what happens if you are sick and where do you go if you get detention. Imagine their amazement when I told them there is no detention!
After we got home I dropped the kids off at home and ended up setting up a job interview for this past Friday. I feel like the interview went well. The job seems fun and there are a lot of perks, such as meeting celebrities and attending fancy partiesm so we'll see what happens.
Finally, yesterday Erin did her first round of wedding dress shopping. It went so well. It was the easiest shopping trip anyone had ever been on with Erin! Every dress she tried on, she looked gorgeous! It was so hard to pick a favorite, but she did. Seeing as how her wedding is still a bit away, she is going to continue to look, but at least she now knows what she is looking for and where to go if she can't find a similar one somewhere else. After that we had a nice lunch out in Red Bank and went back to Papa Squit's house to hang out.
It has been a very exciting two weeks! Now that I'm back at home and back to being by myself it is a big change from taking care of the kids 24/7 and being with my parents, but its nice to have some alone time. I'm sure I'll get back to being bored pretty quickly, but for now I am going to enjoy my quiet time. Who knows, maybe by next week I will be back to being employed!
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