ON WITH THE IRONS!

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We sent Kody down to stay with my parents for a week and then he was sent to Emi's mom's for a week. He did all sorts of things as well as make some money. And with that money, he could get the fabled GI Joe Dragonhawk. At the end of his 2 weeks, the rest of us picked him up and we headed down to Long Beach, Wa for the International Kite Festival. It was, also, a vacation for us before Kody returns to school.

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Day 1. It's a 6 hr drive from B'ham to Long Beach. We cruised right along until I got motion sickness. We stayed at a dinky lil motel and we had a great time. There were 100s of kites and we ended up buying a few ourselves to add to our collection. The weather was so-so. We arrived Thursday late afternoon and immediately I put thomas to play out in the motel's lil play yard for kiddies. It was one of the first times for Thomas to play in sand. (Last time, he didn't quite enjoy it)

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Day 2. Time to explore! We were only a couple blocks from the beach. We went down vendor's row and well... There was food, food and more food! Give or take fun shops. We watched the kites, flew our own (well, Emi's stunt kite), ate a huge Mexican lunch and chilled the rest of the day. We also walked around town to check things out. LOTS of fun shops and things to do for all ages. It was a fairly relaxing day, but energetic too becuase we wanted to see everything and do everything.

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Day 3. This day, we really got to chill. We ran around a bit in the morning and then spent around 6 hrs down on the beach. Kody and I both got stunt kites while Emi hooked up with a fighter kite. Kody also got a skimboard and played on that both on day 2 and day 3. He got pretty good whereas I pitched my head into the salt water a few times. It was a good day to have fun!

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Day 4. Time to pack up and go home! We checked out the end of the penninsula then returned back to Long Beach to fly kites. Emi ran around w/ Thomas and got us some gnarly ribs for lunch. Then it was our long drive home. It was so cool down there that when the sun was out, we got used to 70F weather. Imagine our surprise to find out that the sun could also mean that it's 80+F!!! Pretty funny that we acclimated so quickly.

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Until Next Time