Beach!!!

Probably noone even visits this blog any more because I'm so bad about putting up a new post but once every 4 months.   The NCAustins played hooky on Friday and hit the beach for the weekend.  We had three perfect days at the beach.  The kids had a blast and couldn't get enough of the water.  Libby's favorite part was learning that she could pee right there in the ocean.  We had to keep reeling Maggie in because she kept wanting to catch the big ones.

 The girls found some new friends waiting for them on their beach house beds- that's Moonlight on the right, her birthday is on Halloween!

 This must be some kind of optical illusion, because it almost looks like I am more than 3 inches off the ground.

 We drove into Beaufort for a stroll this morning.  Cute little coastal town-I think Rob drove here purposely on a Sunday morning, because all of his girls were drooling into the cute little closed shop windows, and not just the ones selling ice cream.

 I have never in my life seen so many fish.  You could see schools of them swimming as the waves would start to break.  Rob would throw his net out, grab twenty or so mullets or little blue fish and use them as bait.  We dug giant "ponds" for them to swim around in, awaiting their fate on Rob's hook.  Those little suckers never give up though, they would jump like crazy to get out of the pond and back into the ocean.  The girls would pick them up and put them back into the pond or they'd send them flying back out into the ocean.  It was very entertaining for all of us.  Rob was able to catch a ton of fish, so he was happy, too.  We saw two dolphins, a sting ray, and a shark!!!  And nobody got eaten, except for a lot of those little bait fish.  Sorry.