Summer Vacation - Part 4 {More fun with the Shaws}

Over the next couple of days, we had more fun on the beach with the Shaws.

Gabe and Fenn building sand castles.  Gabe is 13 months older than Fenn.  They had a lot of fun together.

Here's a cute one of Kama and Addy.

On Monday night, we did a little photo session for each family.  Here are a couple of favorites.

A cute one of all 4 kids.

On Tuesday night, we went to a great restaurant called Hudson's.  My friend, Donna, had recommended it to us.  And we were not disappointed.  We'll be going there every time we go to Hilton Head from now on.  Very family friendly.  Great service.  And the food was great, too.  We loved the 'throw back' atmosphere... an old school seafood restaurant.

This one's for Donna.  Her family goes there every summer and they always make hats out of the menus.

Another family photo in front of the shrimp boats.

Kama and Jim had to head back on Wednesday and get back to work.  We had a great time with them.  We were all pleased at how well the kids played together.  And we look forward to more vacations together in the future.

Two stories about the week:

I got sick with a fever and extremely sore throat.  On Tuesday morning, I went to a walk-in clinic nearby and found out I had strep!  Thankfully, they gave me prescriptions for some great medicine that had me feeling much better by the end of the day.  Just my luck to get sick on vacation.

And a funny story about something that happened during the week.  We set up our pop-up tent on our first day on the beach.  In the evenings, we would just pull the top off so the wind wouldn't blow it away at night.  It made it much easier each morning to get our stuff set up on the beach.  We didn't think anything of it because we had always done this when going to Florida beaches.  Well, apparently Hilton Head has different rules.  On Wednesday morning, we woke up and saw our tent frame out there.  But a little later, I looked out and noticed it was gone.  I immediately got on the phone to resort security, who got me in touch with the beach patrol.  We found out the 'rules' and figured out they must have just gone by and picked up our tent.  Apparently, they had tagged it a couple of other mornings, but we just didn't notice the tag.  Anyway, they weren't very far down the beach and brought our tent back to us.  Whew!  Crisis averted!  And it's a good thing, because Dan was mad and had already said we would not be buying another tent!