DARWIN is on his 12th year of teaching, currently at Springville High School teaching astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics. He also teaches physics at UVU for a 7 week STEM summer school program for junior high students. He also teaches teenagers in our church ward. He's super busy, but still makes time to be an awesome dad and husband.
Friday - August 7th
Crabbing
Crabbing
We tried another "something new" this trip. We usually rent little boats and go crabbing in a marina, but this year we tried crabbing from the shore with traps we bought. It's always fun to try new things!
Darwin setting up the crab traps
Just across the water from us were a whole bunch of sea lions lounging on the beach. They really weren't very far away and it was fun to watch them playing in the water and slapping their tails as they would dive down for food.
Throwing the traps out.
The girls sure had fun playing in water and the sand!
We found lots of pieces of jellyfish, but only a couple whole jellyfish washed up on the beach. The girls thought they were pretty cool, especially Savannah.
Touching the jelly!
One minute Savannah was playing in the sand and the next minute I looked over and saw her getting cozy in the sand! Cute little thing. She was getting sleepy, obviously--it was hard for her to miss naps some of the days we were on vacation. It was hard for us too sometimes :)
Rori working on making a sand castle
We had a little picnic lunch on the beach too. That's always fun :)
Grandpa and Andrea getting some shore crabbing tips from a local guy.
Found some seaweed!
Measuring a crab we caught!
Good job, Lovey!
As I said, the girls had fun playing in the water and the sand :) I should have had them wear their swim suits, but it was chilly so I didn't. Obviously they weren't bothered by the cold ocean water. Silly kids!
When we were all done crabbing (which we didn't get to keep any because they were all either too small or female and had to be thrown back in) we got the girls changed into dry clothes and headed down the street for some yummy ice cream at a little place called Eleanor's!
The group walking to Eleanor's
Rori can't eat ice cream because of her dairy allergy, but she got a giant chocolate chip cookie the size of her face to eat all by herself instead!
It looks pretty tasty to me!
Savystole shared an ice cream cone with me. We should have gotten one just for her!
(You can still see her slightly black eye from when she bumped into the glass dining table our first night at the beach house, and her mosquito bites on her forehead. Poor thing!)
Aunt Georgiana is pretty much a pinball queen! She was super excited when she saw a couple of pinball machines and had to show us her skills. It was fun to watch her in action!
Savy had fun playing on some of the other games while the rest of us watched Aunt Geo play pinball.
Aurora got to have a go at playing pinball. She felt pretty special :)
Savy got to have a try too!
One of our favorite things to do on vacation was to squeeze in a little nap! It was so great to have time to nap!!
I spent a lot of time getting caught up on our blog while we were out there :)
It was so nice to just have time together as a family without our normal everyday obligations. There was something great about each day we were there. Thanks to another great day at the beach, everyone!
We had a little picnic lunch on the beach too. That's always fun :)
Grandpa and Andrea getting some shore crabbing tips from a local guy.
Found some seaweed!
Measuring a crab we caught!
Good job, Lovey!
As I said, the girls had fun playing in the water and the sand :) I should have had them wear their swim suits, but it was chilly so I didn't. Obviously they weren't bothered by the cold ocean water. Silly kids!
When we were all done crabbing (which we didn't get to keep any because they were all either too small or female and had to be thrown back in) we got the girls changed into dry clothes and headed down the street for some yummy ice cream at a little place called Eleanor's!
The group walking to Eleanor's
Rori can't eat ice cream because of her dairy allergy, but she got a giant chocolate chip cookie the size of her face to eat all by herself instead!
It looks pretty tasty to me!
Savy
(You can still see her slightly black eye from when she bumped into the glass dining table our first night at the beach house, and her mosquito bites on her forehead. Poor thing!)
Aunt Georgiana is pretty much a pinball queen! She was super excited when she saw a couple of pinball machines and had to show us her skills. It was fun to watch her in action!
Savy had fun playing on some of the other games while the rest of us watched Aunt Geo play pinball.
Aurora got to have a go at playing pinball. She felt pretty special :)
Savy got to have a try too!
One of our favorite things to do on vacation was to squeeze in a little nap! It was so great to have time to nap!!
I spent a lot of time getting caught up on our blog while we were out there :)
It was so nice to just have time together as a family without our normal everyday obligations. There was something great about each day we were there. Thanks to another great day at the beach, everyone!
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