Noah's First Trip to the Beach (9.5.09-9.12.09) @ Destin)

Along the way...

we stopped for a few stretching exercises!

And, of course, once we arrived

everyone wanted to head straight to the beach...

"This is my pal Liger;

he came to the beach with me."

"I am with you G-daddy; you've got all the snacks!"

"Okay, I am smiling but ready to get to the beach!"

"Enough with the photo shoot!

Let's get to the beach, please!"

"Uhhhhh, is this all you do? Sit and look at it?"

Here we are at the overcrowded section of the beach! We quickly decided to move farther down the beach where there weren't so many umbrellas!

Noah's first steps into the water!

"WATCH OUT!"

"Cool! Mom, this really is fun!"

"Wait for it; wait for it...

CRASH!"

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After our very first visit to the beach,
we had dinner at Aunt Faye's house.

Thanks for all the yummy food, Aunt Faye!

Noah had fun climbing her trees!

He also enjoyed sharing dessert with Aunt Debbie!

After such a fun, exciting day,

what's a boy to do!?!

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We took Noah to a children's amusement park called The Track. He had a blast riding the rides even though he looks very solemn in the pictures!

He really looked up at Daniel at one point on the

Go-Karts and said,

"Daddy, we're going fast!"

They were trying to shoot the photog...

We were very proud of Noah for riding many of these rides alone.

Mommy and Daddy were too tall to ride!

"Okay...everybody squint!"

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From the looks of the evidence captured in the following pictures,

I think Noah enjoyed the beach!

Nap time on the beach!

Noah having a ball! (Ha! Ha! Ha!)

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Gran took us to the local "ghetto" aquarium! :)

It was fun watching the sea lions and dolphins!

Liger totally enjoyed the show!

I found Nemo! Can you?

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After the aquarium, we went to a restaurant

that had an alligator zoo in it.

Noah really did ask if we could pet

the alligators below us!

I said, "Sure, son, I'll even let you ride one!"

JUST KIDDING!!!

The beach was so cool!

A HUGE thanks to ALL who made this trip possible for our family!

We love you!