6th Day on Our Beach Vacation

Anne Marie sending LOVE to everyone at home!!!

(Love you Daddy!! Wish you were here)

We ended up on the beach a little late today. We didn't get out there until about 3pm -- however we were sooooo glad we waited that long! Today we went "fishing" for "friends" in the ocean. We 1st played a little bit -- jumping waves & swimming out in the deeper parts. But then the girls found the muscles -- the ones that are just @ the crest of the waves in the sand that furiously start to dig their way back in when the waves goes back. Well, they started a water-bucket to keep them in - then I took the net out a bit to try to catch something for their bucket -- well you wouldn't believe all the things that I found......................

My girl in the sand

The "jump-the-wave" picture of the day (like you needed one every day right? Well, you're getting one anyway!!)

Fishing for muscles....

Oh --- what's this mommy found???? An old sea-shell??

Yes, but it had something in it....

What looks like a lobster. I really don't know what it was, but that's what it looked like!

Ok -- how cute is he?? Anne Marie was not quite sure of him though.

Then, I found another huge muscle -- once we put him in the water he came out of his shell - he was huge! And when we would take him out he would stretch around "looking" for the sand to dig back around it -- Anne Marie again - wasn't sure about him, but Avery LOVED him!

Our little muscle friends we found.

Then, we found a hermit-crab -- full of barnacles & all!

Our "treasure" -- by the end of the day we had 1,158 (just kidding) small muscles - one HUGE one, a sand-crab, a hermit-crab, a "lobster" , 3 (YES 3) fish, and some seaweed. Quite the catch if you ask me -- and the girls thought it was a BLAST!! Lucky I'm not too squeamish -- but I think I might have had just as much fun as they did!!