Weekend Vacation

Last weekend we decided to go on a little family vacation before Pila starts his rotations.  Even though the beach is only about an hour away the kids love to stay in hotels so we got a room for 2 nights and headed to a party for one of our friends that graduated from PA school.  From there we drove to our hotel room then Walmart to stock up on food for the weekend.  We got a room that had a little kitchenette so we could eat there and store milk and stuff in the fridge. (I think Misi and Mana would think they were dying without their milk) The next day we loaded up the cooler, and headed to the beach. Here's a few pictures of our adventure!! (I don't like that the pictures are so small but they were taken with a phone so I'm not sure how to enlarge them)

We found this beach by default. We missed our exit and decided to drive up the coastal highway to Newport, but found this beach along the way.  We were one of only about 10 families, there were bathrooms, showers, and a really nice playground right there by the beach. The sand was nice and smooth, not to mention the parking lot was practically connected to the beach (most of the other beaches we saw you had to walk kind of far to the beach and with five kids, food, chairs, toys, etc we were quite excited about this feature) plus whenever I needed to feed the baby I could just sit in the car. The water was kind of choppy so Pila took the kids one at a time into the water.  Mana loved it the most while Misi preferred to stay on the beach.  We decided that this will definitely be a favorite beach and we will go back again and again!!