Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Quogue Vacation: The End

You will be happy to know that we have come to the end of our beach vacation.. unfortunately (for you :) ) we did go to the beach again during the summer, so there WILL be more beach pictures! Sorry, can't help it.  Above the kids collect drift wood to help with their "cooking".


Meanwhile.. we lose one toward the water!

Beach Spaghetti!  Every dieter's dream!

Uncle Aaron shows us how it is done

Who needs a boogie board?!



Stylin'

Rob wallows


Another sand flea.. clearly related to Cole :)

I see a modeling career in this ones future!

No vacation ends without ice cream!  So after the beach we headed to the local shoppe.




Cole loved this tent, he found Dundore's iPod and holed up in here to "make cookies"

On our way home from ice cream we passed a pond with lots of lily pads and lily's all over.. so before dinner we went for a bike ride to... take photos of them :)

But I guess they close up early!  Who knew?

There were a gazillion frogs though!  Every step around the pond you'd see frogs jump back into the water.. Cole and Cora stopped to watch them more closely.

Where's Cole?!  he thought this was hilarious, little did he know he really is quite hidden!

Our trip to the pond was Cole's first bike ride on his own! other than cruising around in front of our house anyway. 

Here we go!  Rob walked with us in case Cole got tired, but he made it the whole way.

Dundore reads good stories!

Our final day we didn't hit the beach exactly.. but we did go to the inlet, we lucked out and saw a fishing boat come in.

There was sand though.. and a lot of fishing folk hang out here, so there are a lot of treasures.  The kids found a dead fish down in rock crevice, I think that was the highlight of their day, they thought it was amazing!

Bubble are every one's best friend.



Cora plays the role of big cousin very well

We ate lunch on the benches.. I recently learned this tidbit "It ain't lunch if it don't crunch"  how true that is!

If this doesn't say excitement nothing does!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Quogue Vacation: Playground and... more beach!

Before the beach Dorothy and I took 4 of the kids to the playground, which is conveniently located right around the corner from the house.






"Ice Cream" stand
  

Cora takes off to catch the escapee.. I should have taken a wide angle shot, she was headed off into an expansive double soccer field or maybe larger!

It was HOT!  headed back home for the beach!



Today was sand burying day for the Rogers'


Except Caden.. he was in a Caden mood and did not want to wear a bathing suit, but he did build a road around a towel and then a sand castle with Daddy, his new best friend.

Why the thumbs down Cora?!

That is better!


Another fun foggy day at the beach.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Quogue Vacation: Three Hour Tour

We had a couple of tours that added up to three hours.. the littlest Rogers' woke up tired, as children tend to do on vacation!  So the best way to get them to take a nap is to pedal them around for an hour!  They were snoozing within the first 10 minutes. 

We then set off on a boat tour.. Little Bo Peep thought he'd join us :)

Our sturdy ship

Our little group of 10 made up half the boat.

Cousin Sarah could be one of our kids with her blonde hair and blue eyes!

What we didn't realize is that the boat tour was totally interactive!  We learned a lot from the guides and they passed around fun things to touch.

Cora liked the mermaids necklace

And halfway through the tour much to our pleasure, they beached the boat and we got to get out for some water fun, and some net fishing.  You can see Cousin Grace scoffs at pants at the beach!
  
Dundore found her own treasure, and Cora just enjoyed splashing around in the super warm "estuary" water.
  
Rob's proof that I am on vacation with them :)

Cole gets in on the fishing action

They had the kids collect the catch for their fish tank on board. Cole had many attempts at finally getting a fish into the bucket!  They are super wriggly!

A snail was much more Cora's speed, she wasn't a fan of the fish flipping around in her hand.

The kids hum to the snail to get it out of it's shell.. it's blurry, but it was waaaayyyy out!


This was a moment that makes a Mom's heart go pitter patter!  Cole couldn't see into the bucket that held the fish because it was up on a table.  Caden said "Come here Cole, I'll help you see" and he picked him up to lift him high enough to see!


I just like these guys.


Four of the five cousins.