Next Stop: More Friends!

After the wedding, the girls and I stayed in Jacksonville a couple days longer to see one of my roommates and her little family.  It was fun to meet her little boy, Blaise, and see where she lives!  We had a great time with them, too, and even got to go to the beach.  Let me tell you:  The beach with several small children is not as enjoyable as it is without several small children.  But we still had fun! :-)

 

Lucia always clung to an adult's arm/leg/swim suit

 

 Alexa taking in her first beach experience and trying to decide if she liked it or not.

Yay for vacations!  We were gone for about 5 weeks, which was long, but so worth it.  Nice to have a change of scenery and routine, and wonderful to get to reconnect with so many people.  Thanks again for all who hosted and (quite literally) entertained us!

I even survived the flight home alone with three kids and a lay-over.  It wasn't the best part of the trip, but somewhat memorable. :)  I was exhausted at the end of the day, but the girls did great.  They helped pull their own luggage (Lucia at times pulling both hers and Rhea's because little sister was getting tired and whiny), entertained themselves well, and had a good attention span for following instructions.  (The only glitch was that we had to give up all of our carry-on luggage on the second part of the trip, which meant that Rhea's buzzies was not available when she "needed" it, about 5 seconds into the flight.  So that resulted in 45 minutes of tears.  But hey... it was the last part of the trip, and Papa was waiting for us when we landed, and so was the buzzies.  So we were ok.)