Beach Bums 1

The last week of summer vacation, we took our little butterfly and super hero (face painting courtesy of their dad) to a week on Useless Bay, Whidbey Island. Our cabin for the week is on Sunlight Beach a stretch of sand, houses/cabins, lagoons and wetlands on a shallow, warm bay safe for children and a relaxing place for their grandparents and parents. At the end of the week, their parents joined us. It was a perfect vacation during a week of great weather (with the exception of one rainy morning). We'll try to do a week away every year. See Beach Bum 1 and Beach Bum 2 for a chronicle of the week in pictures which included picking blackberries and making a pie, picking apples and eating, picking pears and throwing, picking flowers and making an arrangement for mom's arrival, picking up rocks and shells and painting with nail polish to keep them forever shiny; catching crabs and eating them; making and flying a homemade kite, even better flying a big box kite on a windy moment on the beach; tossing rings, tossing horseshoes, tossing beach balls; playing croquet; splashing, running, and boogie boarding in the water at low tide; playing in the driftwood fort; roasting marshmallows and making some 'mores; fishing; canoeing, riding a raft behind the canoe, riding a log and pretending its a canoe; listening to StoryNory, listening to Recess Monkeys, listening to Raffi; playing the guitar; running, running, running.