Well, vacation has come and gone, and we are back home and back in the thick of it! We came home to a very hot house with no air upstairs. Yuck! They say it will take several days to fix it and I think we may all melt by then. It's funny, if I had to think of how to best describe our vacation, it would be the same as this house........hot and sticky!! I don't think we've ever vacationed in August, and while I'm grateful we even got a vacation, I don't know that we'll ever wait until the end of summer to travel again. It was miserably hot in Florida. And our air went out the first night we got there. The irony!!!!!!!! They were quick to fix it, and the boys only had to sleep downstairs one night. Us girls were able to tough it out because of our female, always being cold, disorder :). The sticky refers to seaweed. It was everywhere. So thick that you couldn't even see your feet in the water, and, we learned the hard way that rinsing off doesn't cut it when it comes to seaweed. The kids would take off their suits and seaweed was stuck to their little bottoms. Yuck!!!! But, enough of the stories.....there's always a story with our vacations. This one was relaxing despite the hot and we did get in some great family time swimming and stuff. Oh, Bay lost a tooth the first night we were there, and then on the last night he learned to ride a bike (finally). He was so proud of the bike think because the twins have been riding awhile. Jody and I learned that Addie is actually the best teacher. She was so encouraging and patient teaching him to ride! We met a family from Chattanooga that had 3 boys in high school. Sounds odd that that's who we met, but they had 17 year old twin boys and then their 16 year old boy was like a star athlete in school. Can you guess where I'm going with this???? The pool was 12,000 square feet for the development and they allowed floats, balls, most anything. So, Bay and their 16 year old threw football all over that pool. In the end, several older gentlemen asked for his name so that they could watch for him in the papers in the years to come. Snort! I enjoyed watching the parents interact with their boys and daydreamed about what that might look like for us one day. One lesson I learned......do not give your teenage son $50 and tell him to buy swim trunks. That mom was dying when her son came back with swim trunks that had a repeated picture of a girl in a bikini bottom. I am not kidding. I would die. Anyway, that's about all I can share other than we really enjoyed the time away. It was nice that we were forced to have dinner together every night (vs. eating in between football and gymnastics), and Jody and I both were able to get in some time reading. I must say, I'm not sure what it is about the beach, but I'm just content there. Can't wait to go back!!!!!!!
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