Back to Reality

Our week at the beach was so much fun. We had a great time with Dave, Tracy, Nathan and Danny. We also had fun seeing Deb and Pete. This was our first real family vacation and clearly our kids had a blast. Most of the days we spent on the beach, just swimming and playing in the sand. One of the mornings we went to Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge. We hiked around a lake there and played with crabs on the salt pan. Nathan was crazy as he ran around picking up as many crabs as he could. Josiah would be quite the opposite. He was scared to walk any place there might be live critters. After a short time he warmed up to the idea that the tiny crabs would not hurt him. He even held one and said, "Wow, that's not so bad!"
Another morning we spent playing at the playground just to be in the shade for a while and still have fun. The kids of course loved every minute of it.
On Friday afternoon we went to Harbor Town to go up into the Hilton Head lighthouse. It was just beautiful there. We all walked around the dock and then climbed the 114 steps to the top of the lighthouse. Naomi would not accept help and walked up all 114 steps by herself - you go girl! After coming down from the lighthouse, Greg had to go to the bathroom. He left Tracy and I with the kids. About 3-4 minutes after Greg left Tracy and I realized that Nathan And Josiah were not with us. We were frantic. I stayed with the girls at the lighthouse while Tracy and Dave went looking for the boys. Tracy checked all the bathrooms and found neither the boys nor Greg. We looked for at least 15 - 20 minutes before checking the playground. Greg was there with both boys. Apparently they had seen Greg walk off and decided to run after him. Greg said that he was quite a way from the lighthouse when the boys caught up with him. He figured we sent them after him. Boy that was quite a scare. After our scare we played at the playground then drove across Sea Pine Resort to the Salty Dog Cafe. We had some very good food and then shopped at the Salty Dog T-Shirt Factory. We got the kids shirts and then had ice cream and listened to live music while the kids danced. We got back to the condo late, but it was worth it. The rest of the time we were there we were of course on the beach.
On Saturday morning we got out to the beach by 7:30am and had Tracy take a bunch of pictures of us. We have some really good family pictures that I will have to post later.