Recovery mode...

Ugghhh...the longer the weekend, the harder it is to get back to real life.  Even worse, the better the weekend, the more impossible it is to want to get back to real life.

Our family vacation was absolutely fabulous from start to finish!  Jason's and my dinner (and dessert at Kaminsky's!) downtown was wonderfully fun, and Charlie held up like a champ through all of the adventures mom and dad had planned.  He naps on the boat better than he does at home, and absolutely loved dropping the anchor and wading over to the beach at James Island. 

The roughest moment of the whole weekend was probably when we made him leave the jungle gym at James Island County Park to go over to the water park.  He was having so much fun climbing that he actually threw something of a fit.  Jason and I tried to tell him that the water park was even better, but he was angry.  Nonetheless, as soon as he saw the wading pool, all was well. 

We capped off the weekend with lunch at Taco Boy and a wander through downtown Charleston -- Charlie even got to pet one of the carriage horses, Jasper.  The whole weekend was like a dream.

Of course, with any vacation there are high points and low points.

High Points

• Friday night playdate with Lakely
• Cobbler & Tollhouse pie at Kaminsky's on the Market (just Mom & Dad)
• Naps on the boat
• Garrett, Amanda, Joey & Deanna joining us for Saturday's boatride
• Mom successfully pulling the trailer back and forth between the ramp and the marina
• Reubers, Owens and Garret & Deanna's Dad joining us for Shish Kabobs and Grilled Pineapple sundaes Saturday night
• Discovery of seaweed on the James Island beach
• Playing with the Durand Boys at the James Island playground
• "Swimming" with Alice at Splash Zone
• Walking through the fountains in the wading pool
• Going down the waterslide with Daddy
• Guacamole at Taco Boy

Low Points

• Rain out at the pool on Friday
• Two brutal head bonks on the boat Sunday afternoon
• Tantrum leaving the jungle gym
• Oscar's being closed Sunday and Monday so Mom & Dad couldn't get fancy takeout

Clearly, the high points greatly outweighed the low points.  So much so, that we've tentatively scheduled another family vacation in Charleston for Labor Day weekend!

I've got it under control, Dad

Worn out from so much fun

Let's go, let's go, let's go...back to the boat!

Another day, another nap...

Charlie isn't the only one who loves the boat

Zoom, zoom

So which one's Captain and which one's First Mate?

Hi, Mom!

Faster, Daddy, Faster!