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Better Late Than Never

On Tuesday night Drew and I were tidying up the toy room after putting the kids to bed.  Drew looked at the spare bed and mentioned that he thought it would be awhile before we would have any visitors again.  Literally 20 minutes later Nathan called and told us he had a flight on hold and was coming out west - two days later!  Yippee!

He got in late Thursday night and when we got up Friday morning we made a spur of the moment decision to head to Whidbey.  When Nathan was here for his sabbatical he really wanted to go the island but we never had the chance so we figured it was better late than never and raced around to catch the 9AM ferry.

We had a great day hitting all our our usual stops - the beach, the castle park and Langley for a little lunch and shopping.  The kids loved the beach and got completely soaked!  They loved playing the in the water and next time I won't mess around and will just put them in bathing suits from the get go.  It was a good thing that I brought a change of clothes for them!  We hit a local pizza place for lunch in Langley and sat outside and enjoyed the amazing view.  It was the perfect day and everyone was sufficiently tired by the time we got home!




Daddy and his boys

This little girl loved having her toes in the sand and tidal pools around the beach.  


Look mom - I'm soaked!


Swings!  Her favorite

The boys enjoying a stop at the Castle park on the way to lunch

She is hungry...now!

Brothers

On the ferry home.  I opted to sit in the car with a sleeping baby while the boys ran around the ferry

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