100731 - First Rays

100731 - Up before dawn and we went to the beach. In all the years L&I lived in Wilmington NC I always wanted to see the sun rise on the ocean and never did. Today we got to the beach and this red ball slowly rose up out of the water. What an amazing sight. If you did not know the world was round what would you think? Endless water that had a ball of light come out of it every morning...



The boys played and we had to force them to look; I hope they remember it... Back to the condo and rested a bit from the early 6am rise. Then back to the beach where the boys raced, we flew our pocket kite, rode the waves, jumped the waves, built a castle, buried ourselves and enjoyed our last day at the beach. We all said goodbye to the ocean and headed back for lunch and dip in the pool. Then another rest break. All back up and out for dinner and then some final shopping. J got a water toy, D&G had already blown all there $ PLUS the additional $ I gave them and had their noses out of joint... We got some ice-cream



and then headed home to ply with the pets L bought the boys... hermit crabs... :-o




One last night trip to the pool! We played and swam and had a good time. We took this photo



Which we compared to another vacation photo from several years ago. These boys are growing too fast and there are not enough vacations...



Back for a snack and bed. A long day I wish was longer......