Month in Review – Part 3

In what will be undoubtedly one of the highlights of our summer (maybe to be topped only by arrival of Baby Sister), we journeyed to Hilton Head once again, to our very favorite place, Sea Crest, Unit #3403. Our days were filled with sleeping in (some more than others), eating big breakfasts, hitting the beach and/or pool, eating another huge meal, going to The Ice Cream Cone, and going to bed. Lather, rinse, repeat. X7 days. Good times.

C couldn’t decide if she liked the beach or pool more. On different days, she would seem more partial to one or the other. I myself was partial to the delicious breakfasts at Skillets and the nightly runs to the ice cream shop. Oh, and there was one night that I devoured 1 1/2 pounds of Dungeness crab legs. Katie flaked out with 1 body & about 6 legs to go…she was weak. I prevailed.

The famed “Kin-Juzzi” tub:

Dinner at Marley’s, a new find which we really liked!

Buried alive…

The Boogie Board, a new favorite this year:

Family picture – moderately complicated by the fact that the tripod was left in the coat closet at home, so we improvised with a beach chair and a stack of books. The results were decent, all things considered.

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Month in Review – Part 2

Next up – The Memorial Tournament, at Muirfield Village. What is better when you’re 32 weeks pregnant, than to troop around a golf course on a hot, humid, sunny day in June? Absolutely nothing! It was a fun day, unfortunately I think I had a little too much sun and didn’t drink quite enough because I wasn’t in that great of shape by the time evening rolled around. An evening sitting at home cooling off seemed to do the trick, though, and I was feeling ok within a day or so.

C’s favorite perch:

Getting an autograph from Rocco Mediate, who was exceptionally nice – when C asked, “Will you sign my hat, please?”, his reply was, “Well, how can I say no to you, sweetheart?”.

Vijay! This dude is tall. That putter he’s leaning on is probably as tall as I am. He was nice, too, and autographed the very top of C’s hat.

Yes, I know – it’s a picture of golf bags. I just thought it was a neat picture. And I took it!

Here again, with Miss Serious (she doesn’t even look like she’s at the same function as we are – look how joyful we are about The Tournament! And she looks like she’s headed to a court date or something).

My favorite picture of the day – and the “real” C-bear:

Month in Review – Part 1

The first weekend of June, we had a marathon of fun and frolic as B & C participated in the Cincinnati Reds Run for Home 5K. We have done this once before, going down to Cinci for the weekend with our friends to participate as families.
This little race snakes around the Cincinnati Riverfront and ends in the Reds stadium, running around the warning track and over the finish line. The second part is they have a Kids Fun Run which is basically just a run around half the warning track and over a finish line. Brian pushed C in the stroller for the bulk of the 5K, but we caught some shots of them blazing in after about 32 minutes of pure bliss.

It should be noted that a guy wearing a complete cow costume (fur, head, everything) beat them by at least 10 minutes. And this was not a cool day by any stretch of the imagination.

As they herded into the finish area…

After that, we headed to the Cincinnati Zoo, which was exceptionally nice, not over-crowded, accessible, fun, and filled with cool stuff! One thing they had which I hadn’t really seen a lot of before was various zoo staff throughout the park holding or exhibiting animals up close and personal (owls, snakes, birds, etc) and telling all about them. Much better than walking from glass house to glass house, looking at animals from 20 yards away.

C enjoyed most everything, here she is clearly delighted by an encounter with the famed spectacled bear:

She has this really amusing habit of suddenly taking on a VERY serious face during an otherwise festive occasion. We laugh frequently about it. Here, at Mimi’s birthday last year:

My SIL can impersonate her better than anyone, and it never fails to send me into hysterics. What can I say, I am easily entertained.

Our hiking around the Cincinnati Zoo was fun but tiring…but we couldn’t stop there!! We stayed in a hotel downtown and finished the night with a pool and pizza party that couldn’t be beat. C fell into bed about 10:30pm, thoroughly exhausted but happy.

The next morning, we headed home, and the trip home was completed by a stop at Brian’s favorite, The Original Pancake House. And I don’t mind telling you, they do make an amazingly delicious pecan waffle.