Summer Vacation Days ~7-9~ VB and Home

We spent 3 more days at VB and we had lots of fun every day we were there.

We spent most of our time in the ocean water splashing in the waves.

Katie and Zach both have boogie boards so they got to be pretty good at riding the waves by the time we left.













Aaron does not like to get his face wet so he spent most of his time holding onto someone when he was in the water.

Everyone was having a blast wading in the water but the waves were pretty strong and all of us were taken out by them at one time.
             

Aaron spent most of his time playing in the sand and loved every minute of it.  It also made my job easier because I knew where he was and most of the time it wasn't in the water.

A few blocks down from our hotel they had this really cool fishing pier but it coat quite a bit of money to walk out onto it so we just walked around it for a while.

Our second night there we walked down the street where they have a carnival area and we all rode on the big ferris wheel.  My mom really wanted us all to go so even though John and Katie were scared of going so high in the air they were good sports and came along anyway. None of my kids or John had ever been on before so it was fun to be with them for their first ride.  Aaron is my brave one and loved every minute of it, while I had to pry off Katie and John's hands off when the ride was done.

Our last day we rented this 4 person bike and we rode it up and down the bike path that is along the beach.  They have all of these statues in between the hotels so we took advantage while riding our bike to stop and take some pictures.

The last 2 nights we were there we walked down the board walk and saw a bunch of circus acts and of course had ice cream.

 

We had a great time and loved being able to spend time at the ocean but we were very sandy and ready to go home.  It was a great vacation spent doing many fun things.  We loved that we were able to see my family and that we were able to spend time with my parents as well.  We had a long 11 hour drive home and of course we got stuck in NYC traffic so we were very excited when we pulled into our driveway late that night! Except that we were met by a skunk in our driveway and when he saw our lights he ran right to our front porch.  Being very tired and wanting to get out of the car I bravely got out and tried and scare him away which didn't work so the kids all ran around to the back door and luckily he was gone in the morning.  Not such a great way to end our trip but we were very happy to be home again.