I just realized it
has been a month since I have blogged. How time flies when you’re having fun!
***Quick update on the arm I almost lost, it still hurts!
The Huge raspberry has faded and you can barely see the mark, but the area is
still very sensitive.
9-25-15
Sea Glass Beach-
After hearing about this beach I decided we had to go, the
very next day. I was able to find the directions online and it seemed to be an
easy drive. Turned out to be a little more difficult than expected. Before we
finally found the beach, we ended up driving through some kind of crop. It wouldn’t
have been too bad if we did happen to drive right by a few people tending to
their crops. Awkward! This is when the “Y” plates come in handy. I’m sure they
spotted them and just brushed it off as, ah crazy Americans lost again!
I expected to find a few pieces of sea glass, after all the
name of the beach is Sea Glass beach, but they really should change the name to
Beach Covered in Sea Glass! It did feel a bit like cheating since you had a
bucket full of piece in about 5mins, but the challenging part was to find unique
colors. We collected a lot of white and brown colored pieces, but I was on the
hunt for blue and green. Green was fairly easy to find as well, but not blue.
The kids got very excited when they found a blue piece to hand me. Now I just
need to find some large glass jars to display these beauties.
Not only did we find sea glass, but also left with many
shells too! The family knows my favorite shell has become the pukka shell and
just like the blue sea glass, the kids were very excited to find mommy a pukka
shell too. My little minions are expert beach combers now!
Of course we couldn’t leave the beach until we tried to find
some sea life. McKinley actually came across a large sand crab by almost
walking into it. Preston quickly jumped into action to catch it, and he
did, he put on quite the show in doing so. I am still amazed he was able to
catch it without getting pinched. We can now call him “The crab whisperer”
haha.
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| Covered in Sea Glass and Shells |
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| Trying the catch the crab |
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| He did it! *He is holding the pinchers |
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| Such a beautiful day |
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| My little beach combers |
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| McKinley was the only one to check out the little cave |
Finally decided to open my pineapple wine from the Pineapple
farm. You can really taste the pineapple and it was delicious! The bottle didn’t last
very long and now I am wishing I picked up more than one. I should have known.
Have I not learned, you buy by the case, right….mom?
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| Maybe my wine glasses are too big? |
10-3-15
Ogido Park-
I am facing my fears and we have continued on our Park
search adventures. This is by far the kids favorite park so far (it is really 3
separate parks in the same area). I was a bit hesitant as we were walking up
and not because I saw a roller slide, but the danger sign *below*. Not
something you really want to see. We spent at least 2 hours here and STILL had
to drag the kids away.
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| Park 2 |
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| Park 3 (toddler park) |
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Park 1
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Spooky!
Um.....
10-10-15
“Dump” Beach in Nago-
This is a beach we have named ourselves and not because it
is a trashy beach. You will have to ask Kayden how it got its name. lol This is
actually the second time going to the beach. This is also the one where Kayden
thought all the hermit crabs were chasing him.
We were here at low tide and
were able to walk waaay out in the rocks. We spotted lots of fish, star fish, and
sea cucumbers. Then we saw a few sea urchins-this is when we headed back to the
beach! None of us had our water booties on and it only takes one wrong step and
someone was going to be in a lot of pain.
We finished our stay with the kids playing in the water and
I went shell searching. I will admit, I have an addiction-to shells. I am still amazed at the amount, quality and
variety of shells on these beaches. Each time I find a new shell I haven’t seen
before. It is very easy to want to keep looking. My search usually doesn’t end
until I hear Preston yelling down the beach saying I’ve gone far enough. Lol Yes,
dad.
Even though this was the second time at this beach we set up
camp in a different location. It actually looked like it hadn’t been touched
for some time, which is probably why I found all the amazing shells I did.
However, the hermit crabs in the area were HUGE! They were rock climbing hermit
crabs, real dare devils. I found a medium size guy that obviously needed a
bigger shell. I felt bad for the little guy, so I picked him up to relocate him
to an area with larger shells and he pinched me! Very rude.
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| Exploring the rock |
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| This is the guy that pinched me! |
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| They are just HUGE |
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| They are pretty fast too |
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| I searched all of this beach |
10-11-15
Bike Riding Fun-
The kids loved getting to ride their bikes again. Next
weekend I think we will take the training wheels off Kayden’s bike!
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| Imagine elevator music as they are waiting |
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| When the doors open, they are off! I had to get out of the way of the other two. |
Sea Wall Walk-10-11-15
We have been to many beaches here and yet we waited until
today to check out the beach that is DIRECTLY in front of us! I can’t believe
it took us so long and it’s really a nice beach. After stuffing Preston’s
pockets full of shells hehehe, we continued to walk the sea wall down. The weather
has been paradise this last week. The crazy humidity has gone and the wind has
come. We still reach about 86 degrees, but it really feels chilly without that
humidity. I think we will start walking the sea wall nightly ;) Although the kids and Preston found it very hard to just
WALK. Next time I will have to bring the jogging stroller so McKinley and I can
keep up.
