Ocean City State Park (Ocean Shores)

We went to Ocean City State Park from Friday afternoon through Sunday morning. It was a short trip to see out friends Jesse and Kala Winter and their daughter Madison before they leave for Texas. My friend Kellina knows them as well so she came along. This was also the first trip we have taken Hank on!

Friday we got there, got set up and headed down to the beach. We didn't realize how long of a walk it was out to the beach so Dillon was already tired by the time we finally got out to the water. It was really windy out on the beach so it made it feel a LOT colder than the campground was.

Kayda immediately walked out into the waves and played with the sand with Daddy. Dillon tried to go out in the waves but he wasn't prepared for the change in balance and landed on his bum. He only managed to last a little longer before he was shivering in the cold wind so I stuck my sweatshirt over him (he could tuck his feet up and be completely encased in it)and carried him back to camp. He was asleep by the time we got there.

Daddy stayed behind with Kayda and Hank for a little while longer. They were both having a great time playing until the wind blew sand into Kayda's eyes so they headed back.

Here they are all bundled up by the fire eating... they're so cute.

Jesse, Kala and Madison got there on Saturday. We all headed out to Ocean Shores (it was all of 2 miles away), the Sand and Sawdust Festival just happened to be going this weekend. So we walked around and watched the chain saw carving, we were there to early to see any finished sand castles but it was interesting seeing them being built. The walks between places was very slow, between Kayda picking flowers and Dillon just getting distracted we were stopping every 30 seconds or so.



















There were horses out on the beach that you could "rent", we parked near some and Kayda went NUTS. She is a horse fanatic. We took her over to pet them and she would've pet each horse if we had let her. Dillon was interested in looking at them but wasn't so sure about touching them.

Fortunately for us we found a pony ride that was $5 for a ride as opposed to $25 for an hour. Kayda chose a horse called "Bama" and Dillon rode "Spirit". Kayda LOVED it from the moment she was on the horse and wanted to ride the horse by herself by the the end of the ride. Dillon took a little while to warm up to it but definitely did NOT want to stop by the end of it!

Here's our group back at camp (Mommy, Daddy, Kayda, Dillon, Kellina, Jesse, Kala and Madison). The kids were usually off entertaining themselves, they especially loved playing on the air mattress in Jesse and Kala's tent. They bounced around for a while then then they dog piled on top of Kayda.

I think the rest of these are pretty self explanatory. Dillon did try out the waves again and did MUCH better. He gradually made his way out until his diaper was in the water (with Mommy or Daddy nearby of course).