so long, farewell...

on saturday, we headed down to crescent bay for our last beach trip with the horspool's. we got together with brooke, tami, and kids; and mike, amber, and kids; and tay and aubree. we had a ton of fun, but i was sad to think that we won't be back for quite a while. last summer we went to the beach about once a week and that was so much fun.


here is grace, trying to bury herself in the sand... yuk, sand... note the cigarette butt on her tummy!


well, the most exciting news of the day happened when bryan and mike were out snorkeling (bryan's bummed he missed it, since the best thing they saw was a half dead octopus). it started when we first saw a group of dolphins jumping in the water (sorry no pictures). then as they were passing, we saw a whale! it was pretty close to us and we would see it pop up and at one point it stuck its head out of the water. it was pretty cool! unfortunately, i didn't get my camera out until after the whale had done all of the cool stuff, but tami snapped this picture for me.