Summer 2011 catch up 1 - Myrtle Beach

Its been a long dry year for the blog. So I'll just pick up any old place. Unfortunately its just not in my nature to skip all the great photos and things that happened, but I'll try to be brief and get back in the habit.

We had a fantastic summer that included a great trip to Myrtle Beach right after Lea's birthday.

Same ol' same ol'... beach, pool, lunch, beach, pool, dinner. Lea was swimming like a champ all across the deep end! Diving in all by herself and swimming to the ladder.

Although I guess we did have a few different events. We played Miniature golf. It was very hot, but very fun.

Then to cool off we had ice cream at Friendly's!

And since it was so close to Lea's birthday this year, we threw her a surprise party (which she'd been asking for. She was truly surprised... maybe a little scared or shy when she first walked walked in, but it was fun.

Dan got to go fishing and caught some fish, but others on the boat did not want what they caught after cleaning so Dan brought home extra fish. The Spanish Mackerel was delicious! But Dan also got the shark fins from the sharks that were already caught and cleaned. He brought home a bag to make shark fin soup. Nothing inhumane since they were already caught and were being eaten. The inhumane parrt comes when the cut the fin off and throw the rest of the shark back to die a torturous death. Not us... we ate all the parts. 

So when Dan made shark fin soup (after several months since he caught some bug on vacation that he could not shake for the longest time.) So Dan makes soup and Lea comes home and says: 

"Ewww it smells like shark fin in here"