Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Merritt Island

Last weekend we were invited to spend some time with our good friends Ryan, Tori, and Owen. Ryan's parents have an awesome condo right on the Indian River on Merritt Island. It was SO relaxing and such a great time spent with friends. We ate lots of good food (Thanks Tori for cooking!), enjoyed the pool, and even went to Cocoa Beach on the 4th of July. The little boys had fun playing together and Evan has been talking about Owen ever since we left on Sunday!

This was our view from the balcony....


That bay is where I sat in a kayak for the first time! I gotta tell ya, my legs were shaking when I got in....but it ended up being really easy. I'm not sure that I'm ready for white-water-rafting though.


Joel, Ryan, and Owen took Evan on his first boat ride...



Evan and Owen enjoyed the big bathtub...

We went across the bridge to the city of Cocoa for a little bit on Friday afternoon. It was SO hot! You can see Owen eyeing the splash park from Ryan's shoulders.

And Joel and Evan went for a walk on the boardwalk...


Saturday morning was the trip to Cocoa Beach. We all did our share of skim-boarding and boogie-boarding. The conclusion was that Joel could boogie-board, Ryan could skim-board and you don't even want to see the embarrassing pictures of Tori and I trying to skim-board! Here are some of Evan and Owen instead...



Saturday evening we let Owen and Evan throw snap-pops (Joel's official name for the things that come in a little box of sawdust, you throw them and they pop on the ground). Evan loved them and just kept asking for more. We should have gotten more of those rather than all the sparklers. It was a little windy so they were hard to light. Here is a "snap-pop" picture but all the sparkler pictures are on Tori's camera. I'll have to post one later.



It seems like Tori and I are always the ones taking the pictures and never get to be in the pictures so here is our "Happy Fourth of July" picture that we took of ourselves....


Thank you Ryan and Tori for an awesome weekend! We can't wait to do it again!

2 comments:

The Birketts said...

looks like you had lots of fun!!! Great pictures!

Tori said...

You didn't even post the best 2 pics!!! Lol, I'm glad they are safe and off the internet! :) We had a great time, too, can't wait for the next trip...