the final day...

these people were the smart ones...they flew!

Brody took some pictures with my phone.  Grampy's is especially charming!

our last rendevous to the beach...

 I don't think Eli liked his sip of Coke. 

my father's fashion statement. 

he also will occassionaly rock some black socks with those sandals. 

he looks quite proud!

  here's that pool grampy!!

 brody wasn't thrilled to leave the beach...i really wasn't either. 

mr. mischievious...five seconds later he sat down in the water. 

so much for those clean/dry clothes.

let's see, we left around lunch time saturday.  both boys fell asleep before we even left the beach.  so for about two hours we had peace and quiet.  by the time we reached the edge of florida, i was ready for kurt to drop us off at the airport in atlanta so the boy's and i could catch a flight home.  luckily, they both settled down for the night by atlanta and we drove on to chattanooga, tn.  after a few short hours of rest for kurt and i, we were back on the road.  sunday's drive was by far better than saturday's...the boy's and i slept a lot. 

brody was never so happy to be home.  he insisted on going to see dave storm.  so across the yard he went to see dave.  he seemed to walk around in circles the next day reaquainting himself with our house again.

riley and eli both ended up at the doctor the next day and eli was puny all week.  riley had croup and was good to go the next day. 

so, sickness were those two boys' souvenir from vacation.

kurt and i both felt like we needed a couple days more of vacation to rest up from our vacation! 

so that ends our trip recaps.  thanks to my sisters for letting me borrow some pictures.  thanks to my parents for inviting us along.  thanks to great-uncle frosty and ginger for putting up with our noisy group. 

lesson learned though:  don't be cheap, just buy the darn plane tickets!

hope you enjoyed.