vacation Friday: Happy Fourth of July

The plan for today was an easy one.  Ocean in the morning, fly-over at 1pm, fireworks from the balcony at night.  And pack up somewhere in there too.

The ocean was a green flag for the day and honestly, it was a little boring.  Great for relaxing bobbing, not so great for fun boogie boarding.  I'm not sure I talked about the flags at all in the previous posts. Tuesday was a red flag during the day, which worked well because we had other plans.  One day it was a yellow flag, but as I was getting ready to be done I realized it was hard to walk back to shore.  (The water was knee deep.  I wasn't worried, but had to wait until the waves were going into shore to move.)  Right as I was getting out a red flag was put out instead.  Most of the time it was a yellow flag, and those were definitely the best.

Fly-over...most people crowded onto the lower balcony, although maybe a few went to a different one.  I elected to stay inside and eat my lunch.  The beach was packed by this time, so we were really appreciating our front row balconies.  

The rest of the afternoon we just hung out.

We finished the puzzle.

And played some games.

We did so much laundry this vacation, although most of the time it was a little bit of laundry from every family.  There were a few chairs in the upstairs hang out room that became laundry chairs as whoever was sorting the laundry divided it up.

At dinner it was leftover time as we were trying to eat up the remainder of the food.  (By the way, we did a great job.  There was barely any cold stuff left.  There were quite a few snacks left, possibly because they were a bit hidden, but the Parrs had the ability to bring it home.  Ok, all that being said, the oven stopped working.  So most of the adults were pressing buttons or whatnot and Ben snaps a picture...only to have Joshua photobomb it in the cutest way possible.

Oh, we can also talk about this artwork.  Here's it's form, sort of.  You can tell that the horizontal spacing is different, but also the vertical alignment is incorrect.  I was bothered.

So Katy and I flipped the outside panels upside-down.  This didn't help enough, so then we tilted them in.  The kids didn't love this because it looked like a Minecraft head and arms, but it was harder to tell that the panels were haphazardly put up.

Once it was dark the kids held a dance party.

And to cap off the day, fireworks!  They were shot off the end of the pier by us, so we were able to just step onto our balconies and enjoy.  Ben and I (along with Laura and Dusty), enjoyed them from the upper balcony while the rest went to the downstairs balcony.