Happy Birthday!

While we were on vacation, we celebrated Danielle's 11th birthday. As far as vacations go, this was not our best. If it could go wrong, it did. We all tried our hardest to be sure Danielle's birthday was a happy one, though, and it did turn out to be our best day of the week.

The kids humored me with a couple pictures between rain showers in the morning.

 

Since it rained, we went in town to do a little souvenir shopping. That worked out well. By the time we were done shopping, the rain had moved out and it was time for the boats to start bringing their catches in. Danielle wanted fresh crab for her birthday dinner.

 

Dinner itself was pretty good but we discovered all too late that the rental house did not have crab crusher thingys, so the crabs were a lot more work than they should have been. Also, right as we sat down to enjoy Danielle's birthday dinner, the exterminator walked in to spray for cockroaches (a second time) and the owner of the rental company came barging in with our freshly fumigated suitcases. Seriously. They both showed up within minutes of each other and they both barged in. Danielle looked like she might cry until I joked that we should ask them both to pose for birthday pictures with us. 

After dinner and presents we spent the rest of the day on the beach.



This was our fishing buddy.



Like Ron's rubber glove? The urgent care doctor took a lot of precautions to be sure he didn't get any of the flesh-eating bacteria in his cut.

God blessed us with a peaceful evening and a beautiful sunset. It really was as perfect an evening as possible. After the sunset, we came back in the house to enjoy birthday cake and to pack for the trip home. I think it was a pretty happy 11th birthday.