food, family & fun… ahhhhh

The reward for patience.  The weather sucked this weekend – at least most of it, it did.  Our patience was rewarded, though, on Sunday night when we were presented with this beautiful sunset.

NEVER stay at the Meadowbrook Hotel in Portsmouth, NH – NEVER.

On Friday, we endured cloudy skies and the occasional raindrop but brought the kids to the ocean and we spent a while exploring the rocks and tidal pools that’d been left behind after high tide.

Saturday was spent by me all day in my eBay class. It rained buckets & buckets. Hubby & kids explored a nearby submarine museum and mall.  Saturdya night, we went to dinner. 

    Sunday brought more rain in the AM, but by the time we headed out down to Downtown Portsmouth, it’d cleared up partially.  We checked out the docks and found this huge ship being unloaded (they’d been doing it since Friday) – an amazing process to watch – they were unloading sand!  Sunday (which was our anniversary) brought us some amazing seafood right there on those same docks for lunch, swimming at the pool at the hotel and and then we headed down to the beach to watch the sunset (see above).  It was a really gorgeous day and it really was nice to spend it with them all (not just hubby).  What a difference a year makes! 

Last year’s anniversary left a little to be desired, to say the least.

Anyways, we had also gone to dinner in between everything else – and so finally, when we got back to the room, everyone was wiped out.  Showers later, we all fell into bed exhausted. Hubby & I exchanged cards after the kids were asleep, talked some, and then finally went to sleep (can you beLIEVE that? LOL) – but it was OK – I got him the next morning

   Monday morning, hubby had a job interview and then we hit the beach for REAL this time.  I’ve missed jumping the waves and trying not to drown and so this was fun. I even got my son to venture in with me for a brief time before, of course, he got overtaken by a wave to the face and left the beach LOL

We headed home and so now, here we are. Zzzzzzzzz… still worn out.