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  • Skylar – fall 2016

  • VA Beach

    The kids really took to the ocean this year. There was no hesitation – they jumped right into the waves.

    Parker had his ducky floaty and Skylar would swim and bob up and down until she got tired, and then hang off of daddy.

    We spent 3 days at Va Beach, and then we spent a couple days at the ‘local’ beaches: ocean view beach, and Buckroe beach. Neither of the local beaches had waves like va beach, but it was interesting to see the locals and the non-touristy parts of Norfolk.

    Two restaurants that we went to were memoriable: Hair of the dog – great drinks, and “The Barking Dog” – a hole in the wall with awesome Carolina BBQ, $2 craft beer served in a coozie, nacho fries, and awesome hot dogs with all kinds of toppings – right at a Marina.

  • Sesame Place

  • Skylar dance

  • Wonderful, have a Dutch Day

  • Dutch Wonderful

    We had a Dutch wonderful weekend at Dutch Wonderland over the weekend.  Skylar has graduated to all the rides in the park and definitely has strong preferences over which ones are her favorite (log flume and the roller coaster – both of which we did 3-4 times in a row).

    Parker is also much more aware of his world.  He’s more cautious than he was 1 year ago, and even more cautious than 2 years ago when he would have put his head in the jaws of a lion at a moments notice.  I think his fav might have been the fun slide.  The first day he didn’t want to try it, but by the second day he was racing daddy by himself to the bottom.

    Here are some pics of all the fun that we had:

  • June 2016 – Susans phone

  • Family Camp Activities

    On our second day we hit up the bay and took out a couple paddle boards.  Skylar promptly boarded and set sail for the turn around point – about 150 yards from shore.  She stood and paddled straight for it until I could catch her and reel her back in.  She made it about 130 yards out, and wanted to keep going, but as you can see from the pics, she got a pretty good workout.

    One of Parker’s favorite activities was the shooting range.  He kept asking if we shot the ‘monsters’ and ‘bad guys’.  I’m pretty sure we shot all of them – and we exploded a mug!

  • Family Camp

    Family Camp was a blast and exactly like what you would expect: breakfast promptly at 8:00am, camp counselors, s’mores by the fire, dance night, kayaking, paddle boarding, zip lines, archery, shooting, etc.

    We all had a lot of fun, and will be coming back as regulars year after year.  Skylar’s favorite activity was the zip line (no surprise there).  She giggled with delight as butterfly’s swirled in our stomachs as we waited for our turn to go – 80 feet up in the air.

    Parker really took to the water.  A few months ago he loved to wear a floaty and play with me in the water, but big man has graduated to full-on swimming.  After wearing a life jacket for a few minutes he promptly took it and prepared to dive into the deep end.

    I recommended that we head to the shallow end of the pool where Daddy could touch.  The rest of the time he dove into the water, swam a few feet, came up for air, and then rinse and repeat.

     

  • Hang Gliding

    Over Memorial Day weekend we went to Painter, Virginia for a hang gliding lesson and to attend family camp at Silver Beach.  Hang gliding was awesome!  We went up to 4,000 feet and I got to fly the glider for most of the ride.

    A glider will pull several G’s, they fall apart at 6 G’s.  Good to know 😉

    Skylar and Parker enjoyed riding on the golf cart and playing with the guys who run the facility.  After I landed Skylar asked when it was going to be her turn…