Day 6;Fun in the Sun!

By this time in our vacation I have learned that sleep is irrelevant. I can not get my kids to bed at a decent hour and yet they wake up with the sun. Not only are they awake, but they are bouncing as if they were made of flubber. It must be the ocean air!

Well, this morning was the Bullock family's turn to make breakfast for the reunion. We made pancakes, bacon, eggs, muffins, and fruit. You would think that breakfast should be a pretty easy meal to make. Not so! First, the orange juice was frozen ( in cans) so it took forever to make the juice. Then as we were making the eggs a circuit blew in the building and we no longer had the use of the outlets in the kitchen. Buy buy electric pans with half cooked eggs in them. We eventually had to cook all the eggs on the stove. But that even had to wait until the bacon was done. It was so hot in that kitchen and poor Renee( Kasson's fiance) was over that stove cooking bacon and nearly passed out. The muffins were sticky from the humidity and on top of it all we had to go milk the cows for the milk. ( Na just kidding, but if we had to, uncle Wayne had 2 cows ready).

After a good breakfast ( once it was cooked), the whole family headed to Risser's beach for a day of fun in the sun. The first activity was a sand sculpture contest. We built everything from regular sand castles to sea turtles. We had a sea monster and even a mermaid adorned with seaweed hair( armpit hair included). Then it was off to the picnic area for a quick lunch. After lunch it was free time. Most people were in the ocean jumping waves or body surfing them. Sydney got lots of use out of her new boogie board. She loved the waves. We went sea shell hunting and even found a couple of live crabs. Crab carcases are a familiar sight ( the seagulls eat them during low tide), but live ones are hard to find with their camouflage. Beach volleyball is always a good time, except when you start playing right after you get out of the ocean. The sand just stuck to me everywhere! This big mamma still has her moves! I had so much fun.

But we all payed the price for our day in the sun. Good thing I brought my Aloe!