And Then There Were Two!: August 2009

You will notice that this post is without pictures. Here is the story from beginning to end.

We decided to drive to Ocean City on the afternoon of our last day of vacation, it's about 30 minutes away. We put Makenzie and Pete in the car and started driving. Makenzie was screaming the whole time and Pete would not sit down in the back seat. After getting into Ocean City we realized that there wasn't a whole lot of places to stop where we could get Pete out of the car and walk around.....so we decided to turn around and head back to the dog beach near Bethany (which is where we came from). Makenzie was still screaming and I we didn't have any snack in the car to give her. We stopped at the dog beach and I was going to get Makenzie some crackers from the snack bar. Taylor said to just wait until we were on our way out so she wouldn't get everything all sandy on the beach. We walked out to the beach and there were way too many people which would have been no fun for Pete since he wouldn't be able to run around. So we decided to try the next dog beach, but first I was going to go to the snack bar. The time I we got to the beach and saw the snack bar open it was 4:37pm....it was now 4:45pm and it was all of the sudden closed. What place decides to close for the day between the times of 4:37pm and 4:45pm????? So no snack and Pete still hasn't gotten a chance to play. So we are back in the car and Pete still won't sit down and Makenzie is still screaming. We stopped off at Happy Harry's (convenience store) on the way to the next dog beach. Taylor jumped out and ran in to get Makenzie a snack. He came back with Popcorn which is not a very good snack for a 14 month old to eat in the back of the car.....he didn't know that popcorn is very easy for kids to choke on. So during the car ride Taylor spent the whole time biting off pieces of the popcorn and giving them to Makenzie so she wouldn't choke. We finally get to the next dog beach (at this point we've been in the car for about an hour now). We get everyone and everything out of the car and head onto the beach. The water was really rough because a storm was coming, but we were just staying where the water would only get our feet. Apparently that was still too much for Makenzie because she lost her footing and went face first into the wet sand. Taylor picked her up and she dropped her shovel, which then got taken down the beach a little by the water. Taylor tells me to take Makenzie while he runs after it. She was all wet and I had my camera so I didn't want to take her from him. So he chased after the shovel while carrying her. I had my back to the water while I was watching him chase the shovel. All the sudden a big wave comes and take me out, fully clothed and camera in hand. My camera got drenched and my flip-flop flew off. So now I have a broken camera and Taylor is still holding Makenzie but now he is chasing my flip-flop instead of the shovel. He got the flip-flop. So now we're standing on the beach, I'm soaked, Makenzie is soaked, my camera is broken, Pete has no idea what is going on, Taylor and this old man sitting nearby in a chair are cracking up laughing.

So that's why this post has no pictures............