Vacation!

Despite the coldest June weather *ever* (or something like that), we have had a great time on our vacation. We were in Atlantic City from Monday through Thursday. We did beach things, we did boardwalk things. And we spent time together as a family and it was fantastic. Jordan, Sammy, Claudia and I played a card game that was new to me--Kemps. Claudia and I played together and lost to the littles. But it was really fun! The hotel was really cool, too. It had a full kitchen and was two bedroom/two bath and the back door opened onto the boardwalk so it was right across the boardwalk from the beach.

On Thursday we drove to Philadelphia to spend a couple of days with Jamie's brother, sister-in-law and their adorable almost-three-year-old daughter. It's been really nice catching up with them and our SIL compiled a ton of information for us to take a day trip into NYC today.

So we drove to New Jersey this morning and hopped a ferry across to the city. We did a lot of walking and shopping and eating. It was a good first-time visit and we're going to try to make it an annual thing.

Here are photos of Atlantic City. I'll post NYC photos tomorrow when we get home.

First, Sammy and Jordan were just going to roll up their jeans and "wade".


Then "wading" turned into getting completely soaked and they ended up going back to the hotel to put swim suits on.








This is Claudia taking a break from looking for seashells.


Claudia and a dinosaur on the boardwalk.


New friends that Jamie and Claudia made by eating french fries.


What happens when you share a french fry.


"But we can't help but notice you have more."


Here we are trying to make it back to the hotel with the fries. They were following and hovering at eye level.