Beach Days 1-3

Day 1/Saturday: Travel

She actually did well. I thought she would cry the entire way but she surprised me. Micah had to work a while before we could leave. We finally left Cordova at about 12:00. We had to stop in Adamsville due to a dirty diaper and so we grabbed lunch there and were on our way.

We gained 2 extras to go with us. Granny and Papa Wallace went with us as well as Aunt Lindsey. Thank goodness Mark and Kristi let us use the Suburban. We were packed to the gills. Going on vacation with a baby is like moving. We made to within 1 1/2 hours to the condo and she got upset. We stopped at a Cracker Barrel hoping to eat and get her to sleep but it didn't work so after dinner we just hit the road again. Needless to say she was ticked the rest of the way. Micah, Lindsey and I have had many screaming road trips so it didn't bother us but it killed Granny and Papa. I thought they were going to kill me before we reached the condo. Papa thought we should just get her out of the car seat and I said no way was that happening. Granny tried to get her calmed down but it just made her scream harder. To top it off Garmin got us lost. When we typed in the condo address it didn't take us there so we had to call Mom. Her and coach were already here so I thought they could give us better directions. WRONG. Instead they are on there way back from Walmart so they stoped to wait on us. You would think she would stop at an easy to find location. Instead she called and said they were waiting for us at McDonalds. How many McDonalds do you think we have passed? A million. We couldn't even find the beach (it was dark already) I have no idea how she thought we were supposed to find McDonalds. On top of trying to find McDonalds, Emma Kathryn is screaming, Papa is having a duck because she is screaming, Granny is rattling talking to EK trying to calm her down, Mom is calling a million times trying to get us to McDonalds, Lindsey is trying to talk to mom and at this point Micah and I are laughing. I have never been so glad to see our condo in my entire life. We arrived here at about 11:30 pm.

Day 2/Sunday: Beach

The weather was beautiful. We went to the beach early and set up our tent and chairs. We put a poneytail in Emma Kathryn's hair for the first time. It looked pretty funny.

After breakfast we went to the beach and Mom stayed inside with Emma Kathryn. We all got a bit too much sun. The wind was blowing and we never got hot so we all got burned. Mom brought Emma Kathryn to the beach that afternoon and we kept her under the tent. She loved it. She fell asleep on the beach and slept a while. She loved watching the people and birds.

For supper we met my cousin Brian Wallace. He is working here so we called and had supper with him. It was nice to get to spend time with him.

Day 3/Monday: Pool

We stayed in a while today because we all were a bit red from the day before. We took Emma Kathryn to the pool in the afternoon. She is a water duck. She loved it.

It started raining so we came inside and got ready for supper. We went to Barefoot Landing with intentions of eating at Joe's Crab Shack but the wait time was forever so we went to the Fire Island Grill instead. On our walk from the Crab Shack to the Grill started raining again so we didn't get to do much shopping. We did get to stop in the Christmas shop. We bought Emma Kathryn her first Christmas Ornament. I picked out a snowbaby ornament that is a snowbaby holding a baby angel. It is very cute. Our supper at the Grill was good but Emma Kathryn was tired and fussy.

I had to take her back outside while we waited on our food and get her to sleep. Thankfully she was exhausted and they had rockers outside the restaurant so it didn't take long for her to give up.