Urban Cowboy building his kids a sandcastle!
Collecting crabs!
Going on a kayak adventure!
My mermaid!
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Some of my Favorite Pictures
It was coconut harvesting time.
A Fishing Village
It was sugar cane harvesting time too.
Sometimes we just crack up at the funny signs around.
One more from the fishing village. These workers were "harvesting" shrimp.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Beach Pictures
Here are a few of our beach pictures...
The island in the background is called Monkey Island. It is full of monkeys. People actually pay to go and see them. We have had our fill of monkeys to last us a lifetime!
Looking for crabs!
This jellyfish is about 2 feet in diameter!
Would not want to come in contact with this one!
One sick little beach bum!
He really wanted to be out here with these beach bums!
He even wrote me this note in the sand...
The medicine had taken effect and he was begging to go and play. It worked, I gave in and let him in the water.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Vacation 2012
We just returned from our vacation time at the beach. There is a place there called the Juniper Tree and it is specifically for "workers" like us. We loved every minute of it! We decided to drive there to save money. It was really the cheapest way for us to get there but after driving round trip 2168 kilometers we think we need to find a another cheap way! The roads in Thailand are amazing...compared to other countries we have lived in. But the driving is the same as the other countries we have lived in. Rules are not important and everyone is in a hurry. We passed a lot of stopping points the police had set up. The thing is, they don't care how fast your are going they are only looking for registration! HA! We left at 5:30 am on a Friday and arrived around 7:30pm that night. We only took one wrong turn and that took us about 30 more minutes to navigate back to the correct path.
The first day on the beach was perfect. There was no wind and no waves. We pretty much spent the entire day at the beach. Later that night Rocket started running a really high fever. I medicated him and put him to bed with a prayer that he would be sick for too long. All the next day he rested off and on. He would start running fever again and feeling really bad, I would medicate him and then he would want to swim in the ocean until the medicine would wear off. I felt so bad to keep him inside when we were all wanting to be outside playing. Monday morning he woke up feeling great and didn't stop the rest of the week. We only had one other mishap...the waves took him out one afternoon and he lost his glasses in the ocean. I was prepared and had an old pair for him. He could not see as well, but at least it was something. I teased him that some fish must have needed to see too!
We spent the week playing in waves, swimming in the pool, reading (at least I did that), and one day we went into a nearby national park and explored a cave. Ok, Hubby took the kids into a cave to explore. I went about 30 feet into the cave and has somewhat of a panic moment! There was a three foot space between two rocks we were suppose to climb through. NO thank you! I had no idea what was on the other side of the rock and it was pitch black. I told Hubby I would meet them at the other end on the outside! He and the kids explored the whole cave for about an hour. When they came out they told me, "Mom, you would have been so scared!" There were bats in there! When I saw the pictures they took I was so thankful to not have gone further in. HA!
Below are a few of the cave pictures they took. I will post beach pictures in the next post.
More beach pictures to come...
The first day on the beach was perfect. There was no wind and no waves. We pretty much spent the entire day at the beach. Later that night Rocket started running a really high fever. I medicated him and put him to bed with a prayer that he would be sick for too long. All the next day he rested off and on. He would start running fever again and feeling really bad, I would medicate him and then he would want to swim in the ocean until the medicine would wear off. I felt so bad to keep him inside when we were all wanting to be outside playing. Monday morning he woke up feeling great and didn't stop the rest of the week. We only had one other mishap...the waves took him out one afternoon and he lost his glasses in the ocean. I was prepared and had an old pair for him. He could not see as well, but at least it was something. I teased him that some fish must have needed to see too!
We spent the week playing in waves, swimming in the pool, reading (at least I did that), and one day we went into a nearby national park and explored a cave. Ok, Hubby took the kids into a cave to explore. I went about 30 feet into the cave and has somewhat of a panic moment! There was a three foot space between two rocks we were suppose to climb through. NO thank you! I had no idea what was on the other side of the rock and it was pitch black. I told Hubby I would meet them at the other end on the outside! He and the kids explored the whole cave for about an hour. When they came out they told me, "Mom, you would have been so scared!" There were bats in there! When I saw the pictures they took I was so thankful to not have gone further in. HA!
Below are a few of the cave pictures they took. I will post beach pictures in the next post.
Our little explorers!
The entrance into the cave.
Getting ready to go into the cave.
Really excited!
The reason I am so glad I didn't continue on in!
More beach pictures to come...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Vacation-Part 3
I am going to try to finish up posting about our vacation in this post. I am going to limit my photos because I don't think you want to wait for 100 pictures to load. :)
We spent the second week our our vacation at an amazing beach. It was called Beauty Beach Resort and it was on the PranBuri beach in Thailand. We chose this resort because in Thailand if you have more than two kids they usually make you get another room, which can end up being costly. We were traveling with two other families that both have three kids. We had gotten a recommendation for this place so we all decided to try it.
It was amazing! It was a quite little fishing area. The beach was beautiful and hardly had any people on it! The sand was amazing and their were no rocks to swim around. The owner of the place became a believer 30 something years ago because of a "worker." He likes to give discounts to "workers". It ended up being a really economical vacation because of the generosity of this man.
It was a great vacation not only because of the beach but because of the fellowship we had with friends. The kids had other children to play with. There were 6 girls and 2 boys! Caleb was thankful for the other boy to play with!
This is the view from our window!
This was home sweet home for 6 days.
Little swimmer!
We decided one day to rent a kayak. I didn't realize how much work those things are!
Friends sweet friends!
We got to explore some caves too!
Oh, the best part was the ice cream store....Sweensens!!! It was yummy!
On our last day Caleb jumped in the pool and cut his chin on the edge of the pool. He ended up getting 5 stitches. We were so thanful that it happened on the last day! He couldn't get in the water after that.
We spent the second week our our vacation at an amazing beach. It was called Beauty Beach Resort and it was on the PranBuri beach in Thailand. We chose this resort because in Thailand if you have more than two kids they usually make you get another room, which can end up being costly. We were traveling with two other families that both have three kids. We had gotten a recommendation for this place so we all decided to try it.
It was amazing! It was a quite little fishing area. The beach was beautiful and hardly had any people on it! The sand was amazing and their were no rocks to swim around. The owner of the place became a believer 30 something years ago because of a "worker." He likes to give discounts to "workers". It ended up being a really economical vacation because of the generosity of this man.
It was a great vacation not only because of the beach but because of the fellowship we had with friends. The kids had other children to play with. There were 6 girls and 2 boys! Caleb was thankful for the other boy to play with!
This is the view from our window!
This was home sweet home for 6 days.
Little swimmer!
We decided one day to rent a kayak. I didn't realize how much work those things are! 
Friends sweet friends!
We got to explore some caves too!
Oh, the best part was the ice cream store....Sweensens!!! It was yummy!
On our last day Caleb jumped in the pool and cut his chin on the edge of the pool. He ended up getting 5 stitches. We were so thanful that it happened on the last day! He couldn't get in the water after that.
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