BEACH PICNIC

On Thursdays Jen takes Jack to mini maestros then for a stroll along the beach. Last week they invited Cindy, Kaiden, Hollie and me to join them.  It was such a perfect day weather wise.  Ciny came to pick me up and I drove her car to the beach, which was a funny experience.  Ciny's car has a bench seat in the front, so the hand brake is actually a foot brake.  I hadn't driven one with this before and slowly went down the drive way with my foot on it.  Then Ciny noticed I still had the park brake on, so she explained that it wasn't the actual brake.

JEN & JACK EXPLORING CINY AND HOLLIE PLAYING

KAI ASLEEP

CINY & HOLLIE

CINY & KAI

CINY,KAI, HOLLIE, JEN & JACK

KAI,CINY & HOLLIE

We arrived at the beach car park and only had a short wait until Jenjen and Jackjack arrived. After slip, slop, slapping we strolled down to the sand where I sat with Kai as he was asleep.  Jen, Jack Ciny and Hollie headed straight for the water, which looked so calm and inviting.  Jen and Jack went exploring looking for pretty shells whilst Hollie sat on a little sand bank in the shallows.  She hates being dirty and was freaked out by the feel of the sand trying not to put both legs down at once. So Ciny brought her back up to the wall where I was sitting to play in the sand.  Kai woke up so I suggested we drag the stroller down to the edged of the water to take both babies in the water.

KAI & HOLLIE

HOLLIE & JACK

JACK, NANNY, JEN, KAI & HOLLIE

NANNY & HOLLIE

UNDER THE PIER

HUGE STAR FISH

HOLLIE TAKING HER HAT OFF

HOLLIE DOLLIE

At first neither of them liked the water and just wanted to be held.  It didn't take too long though and they both took off exploring, chasing Jack and each other.  We found a  huge star fish and heaps of little fish swimming around.  then I spotted a jelly fish heading straight for the kids. It seemed to tumble to move along the bottom of the sand.

After we all had fun we headed back to the wall for our picnic lunch.  I had made sandwiches for everyone,  Jen asked me to make microwave popcorn (which I burnt)  and Ciny bought hot chips.  The chips went down quickly with all the kids diving into them. The kids started throwing their crusts from their sandwiches to the seagulls, then did the same with the chips.  Some cheeky seagulls tried to come right up to the box and help themselves.

TWINNIES EATING LUNCH IN THEIR PHIL&TED

SITTING ON THE WALL FOR LUNCH

HOLLIE JEN AND JACK EATING CHIPPIES

MAKING A SAND SKIRT FOR HOLLIE



KAI BEING A BIG BOY STANDING UP



It was such a good time we didn't want it to end. So Jen invited Ciny back to her house for afternoon tea once she had picked up Millie and Joshie from school.  I had a few things to do in the time between, so we headed off to do those and Ciny headed off to the school.

Then we all sat in Jens backyard enjoying afternoon tea whilst all five kids had a ball playing.