After a rough night, we managed to have another great day while on " 'cation." Katie and Caroline are sharing a room which is a big deal for Katie since they've never done that before. Unfortunately for Caroline, Katie is going through a phase where bedtime is a battle no matter how tired she is and she may or may not stay quiet and in bed. Caroline, on the other hand, needs her beauty rest. That baby LOVES to sleep. She managed to sleep through most of the drama, but she would wake up and yell for about 10-15 seconds when Katie was in the throws of a good fit and then pop her fingers in her mouth and go back to sleep as if to say, "SHUT UP!!!!" God love her. Anyway, we were all a little tired today, but still had a lot of fun. Katie LOVES everything about the beach (she is my child after all) so we start every day with a trip down to the sand and surf to shovel sand and chase waves. There are tons of nice bike paths here so we rented bikes and rode all over the island this morning. The girls alternated between loving it and screaming to get out of the trailer they were in. Caroline took her first dip in a pool this afternoon - she got ahold of a raft and chewed on the end of it while she floated around so she was happy as a clam. Katie had a big time since swimming is one of her favorite activities. We ended the day with a 3 hour boat tour. A boat tour of what, I couldn't tell you since Daddy "planned" this one and apparently misunderstood that there would be food provided as part of the deal when there wasn't. So of course we show up with kiddos who haven't eaten and have to make a mad scramble through the marina market to pick up what amounted to some convenience store type food. Captain Robert had to come tell us his ship was sailing. We barely made it onto the boat. While everyone else was listening to the Captain and watching crabs or something, Mama was slapping together ham and cheese sandwiches and stuffing food down a toddler who was ravenous and literally a bottomless pit for food. Daddy had the nerve to look at me and say, "just go with it." I wanted to scream "I'LL TELL YOU WHERE TO GO!" but it is vacation after all. Anyway, we got to see dolphins jumping around which was very Go Diego Go! for Katie and then we stopped and got off on some island which I imagine is some kind of nature preserve or something. Again, I missed that part since Katie was yelling "More chips! I need more chips!" We stopped on the island long enough for Katie to get her pants wet and cake herself with sand. Nice. Everyone got another round of baths this evening (so glad we spent the time cleaning them up before we left) and then crashed out...
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