Vacation!! (day 8)

We are home safe and sound now. We arrived at midnight on Saturday, after a grueling 14-hour drive for a 12-hour trip (there was a lot of vacation traffic and an accident in a West Virginia tunnel that held us up for almost an hour). Adrian went back to work this morning, the laundry room is full of sandy clothes, and every room in the house is cluttered with all of the kids' toys that they missed (they somehow managed to play with everything yesterday).

Here is the last post from our vacation:

Day Eight

Today is our last day here. Good timing too, because T is officially done with vacation. Adrian, Oo, and I want to enjoy our last day to the fullest, but it took a lot of convincing and the companionship of a toy T. Rex to get T to leave the condo this morning.

Not much of a hot-weather person, T was refusing to outside. He no longer wanted anything to do with the beach or the pool, but it was too nice of a day for us to take turns staying indoors with him. With a little creative thinking, I got him to go outside to take pictures of his plastic T. Rex splashing in the pool and stomping on the beach. T thought this was great fun, and we were able to keep him outside for most of the day.

In the evening we all got dressed up and went out to dinner at the Salt Water Cafe. Adrian and I ate there when we first vacationed in Garden City (before Oo was born). Adrian, Oo and I started with sushi as an appetizer — Oo likes California roll. The kids and I then had simple salads with honey-lime dressing, and Adrian had the She Crab soup (we had it 8 years ago and it was as good as we remembered). For our entrees, the kids ate grilled salmon and rice, I had the lump meat crab cakes, and Adrian had the mahi mahi.

Here we are in a courtyard outside of the restaurant.

The kids had plenty of popsicles and sorbet during the day, so we skipped dessert and headed home, but not without first stopping for a picture in front of a fun souvenir shop.

Back at the condo, it was baths and bedtime for the kids. Adrian and I stayed up later to clean some of the condo and do some initial packing. Tomorrow, we'll rise early, throw everything in bags, run the vacuum and head for home. It's been a wonderful vacation. The weather was great, and I loved how close we were to the beach. But my favorite part... my favorite part was spending so much time with the three loves of my life.