Sand Island Cottages

Cecily heading for the beach!

Badu cottage

The front porch of our cottage.

The view we woke up to every morning.

 

The girls' room.

All the gaps helped keep it cooler, but it also let in the monkeys...

The Friends

The Dows

The Mosers

The Kroppachs

Cecily and a couple of her fans.

Hair twins.

The Beach

With all of the swimming Claire has been doing, she thrived in the water!

She even caught a fish!

Maggie the Magnificent; the sand sea turtle that we made near an actual turtle nest.

The girls "painted" their toenails with colorful shells!

Mommy and Claire in the water.

Claire and Callulah had a great time jumping waves.

...and getting tumbled.

Ready for the beach!

Starfish Island

On the way to starfish island.

So many starfish of every color. We gathered these in about 5 minutes.

Only daughters allowed! (There were 12 of them; one is missing here because she wasn't feeling well.)

Every day the fishermen went out...

...and every night we had some amazing seafood.

We celebrated Kirk's birthday with Chocolate cake, but no candles because it was too windy.

We had lots of time for snuggling!

Cecily had her own pool (the footbath outside our cottage)

The Africa pool (a giant tide pool shaped like Africa, including an underwater tunnel to Madagascar).

Hannah's Birthday Party

The girls all had a "color fight" where they threw little bags of colored corn starch until everyone was covered.

Sword fighting with Lia

Daddy and his fierce girls (well, two of them)

We made stick bread and roasted marshmallows.

Sunrise