We were worried that we wouldn't be able to play on the beach at all while we were in Florida because the beach had red tide. Well, I guess there was red tide in the ocean and that caused the fish to die. All of those dead fish washed up on the beach and littered the shore. It was GROSS - a 10 foot wide stretch of dead fish running the entire 3 mile length of Siesta Key beach. Ewww!!
We were happy to walk down to the beach and see that most of the fish had been cleaned up. There were a few here or there, but overall it wasn't too bad.
Hooray for a fish-free beach!
Cameron was very excited to get digging
Cutie #1
Cutie #2
Going down to the ocean to get some water
Cam was playing a funny game where he was making lines he had to jump over and past. He jumped and jumped and jumped. Unfortunately, I didn't get any very good pictures of it.
On their way back, Leah did not want to carry a bucket anymore.
She was also getting very annoyed that her hat kept flying off.
With buckets full of water, they were all set and ready to go.
Cam was so, so happy to be playing on the beach.
Leah had fun burying Mama and Daddy's feet
After the kids played for a while, Tim decided to dig a big hole. I think he looks forward to doing that every year as much as the kids look forward to playing on the beach!
Cameron testing out the hole - not even close to deep enough!
Cameron tried squatting down but Tim still didn't think it was deep enough.
Cam and Leah making "soup" - they dumped sand into the bucket of water. It was really, really difficult to get the soup out of the bucket when we were done playing!
The hole is now deeper than Leah is tall.
Cam thought it was pretty cool this deep. Also, check out the wall he was building around the hole to protect it.
Yep, pretty darn deep.
Two kiddos in a hole
Daddy tries it out - not quite as high on him.
Cameron buried Daddy and then helped pull him out!
Then it was Cam's turn to get buried
He was even able to get out of the hole all by himself, which he hasn't been to do in the past.
After playing at the beach for a few hours, we headed to the pool. We didn't actually have the camera with us, so there aren't any pool pictures from today. But we swam and swam and swam some more. We spent a lot of time in the pool this trip!
We decided to go out for our annual trip to St. Armand's Circle for ice cream. As usual, we walked around the circle first. The kids liked looking in the stores.
What a cutie pie!
There was a very cool new store that had all kinds of neat hammocks and swings. We all liked this swing.
This one was soooo comfortable!
We made it around the circle and went to Kilwin's for ice cream. Cameron picked his usual, Superman. It is quite colorful.
Leah wanted her own bowl this year and she picked the Superman ice cream too.
She was pretty happy to have her very own.
Superman goatee and mustache
Yummy, yum, yum - a delicious tradition!
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