Beach vacation recap!

So, it’s been almost a week since I’ve posted. Last Wednesday my fiancé and I got home from the beach. We went from a Saturday to a Wednesday. And we had a great time! It was really nice to be off work for a little bit and not have to worry about things. His mom and step-dad live in a trailer right by a bay and marina! And they have a boat that we went on a couple of times! I told my fiancé that I want to get a boat someday!! Of course that won’t happen for many, many, many years because we have other things to spend our money on right now. But anyway, it was so much fun! The only thing that really stinks about the whole trip is that I got eaten alive by bugs!!! We went to Assateaque Island on the Sunday that we were there and the bugs were awful!! I’m still itching my legs like crazy!! I did get a bit of a tan which I’m surprised about. And yesterday at work one of my co-workers noticed my tan so I’m even more surprised that 4 days after getting back I still have it!

Being the picture freak I am, I took 133 pictures, so I won’t be able to share them all with you. So here some of my favorites from the trip. Oh, and I forgot to mention, we went to Bethany Beach, DE, Ocean City, MD, and Rehoboth Beach, DE. It was my first time being to Bethany and even though the boardwalk is really tiny, it was still nice!

Our first day at the beach!

Our first time on the boat!

   

I’m going to take one of the sunset pictures I take and get it blown up, framed, and put on a wall somewhere. These are just 3 of the pics I took of the sunset. Doesn’t it look gorgeous?

 
We went to Rehoboth Beach and rode some of the rides, including the ferris wheel. This was my first time on a ferris wheel on the beach. It was amazing!! I loved the view from up there!!

I don’t know why we didn’t do something like this the last 2 times we went to the beach, but I think we will definitely do this every year we go now!!
 
Lol…the moon looked awesome so I just had to make him do this.
 
My fiance and his step-dad were fishing and they caught a baby shark twice! This was taken the first time they caught one. It looks like he’s feeding his finger to the shark!!
 
Just like with the sunset picture, I wanna frame a picture like this as well. It looks so pretty and I love how you see light from the moon on the water!!!
 

So that’s about it…now it’s back to working. Oh, and enjoying the pool!! The week before we went to the beach, I was in the pool every single day!! I’m going to make the most of the rest of the summer and pool! Have a great Monday everyone!!!

Did you go to the beach this summer?
What is your favorite part about the beach?

Our vacation- {Part 5}

Well, this is the last part to the recap of me and my fiancé's vacation.

After checking out from the hotel around 9:00, we headed back to the boardwalk. We were a bit ahead of schedule here because we planned on checking out closer to 12 before going to the boardwalk. But oh well, we didn’t want to wait. So the first thing we did was check out an arcade. The big claw game with the Angry Birds stuffed animals was what drew in my fiancé! He is addicted to that game! The first time he tried to win a stuffed animal, he had it, but then the claw dropped it. Then the 2nd time, it stayed in the claw and he won!!! He loves his bird and will randomly throw it at me and say, “Angry Bird attack!!!” Lol…whatever makes him happy! :)The arcade was on a pier, so I go to take more awesome pictures of the beach!!!

Me: “They don’t surf on the East coast"
lol…I had said that sometime during our trip and was proven wrong when we saw a bunch of surfers. I just never saw anyone surfing on an East coast beach before.
 

So, we left the boardwalk around noon to start our journey home. It’s hard to believe that a week ago right now, we were at the beach. I can’t wait till next year when we can go back and we can actually go into the casinos!!!! We really want to stay at one of the hotels on the boardwalk, so we’ll have to start saving our money sooner! I had said before that I thought we could do this trip with $300 or less, well, I think I was a little off. I’m not sure what the grand total is, but I’m sure it was closer to $400.

Well, I hope everyone enjoyed reading through and looking at the pictures of me and my fiance’s vacation. In case you missed any of the posts, you can check them all out here:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

There are only a few days left for my Rafflecopter invite code giveaway, so make sure you check that out. Have a great Friday!!!!

Oh, one more quick thing…only 15 more days until I get to see these guys:

 

It’s finally starting to sink in that one of my childhood dreams will be coming true soon!!!!!

Our vacation- {Part 4}

So after we went swimming, we headed back to the boardwalk to go to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner. If you have never been there, you have got to try and find one near you. It is a great place!!! As soon as you walk in, you feel like you are in the rainforest!! Every half hour there is a thunderstorm complete with thunder and lightening effects and every 15 minutes the animals come to life! It is an experience that you have to experience for yourself!! I didn’t get a chance to get any pictures because it was kind of dark in there, and I didn’t want my flash to bother anyone. Oh, and what did I get to eat you might be wondering? I got the coconut shrimp and it was amazing!!!! It was about 6 or 7 of them and they were each on a stick. The breading was delicious!! I definitely recommend it!!

After we were done eating, we went to the Pier Shops. What my fiancé and I loved the most was a shop called Brookstone. It has all of these gadgets for everyday life that make things simple! It was just awesome!!! My favorite item that we saw there was this:

It’s an ice pop maker! How it works is that you freeze the pop maker (the thing on the left), take it out of the freezer, put the sticks into it, pour juice into the molds (you could even put fruit or other food into it), then 7-9 minutes later, the pops are done!! I definitely need one of these!!!

The also have a huge water fountain with lights and they do a show every hour on the hour. It’s pretty cool!








This was taken from the end of the pier looking onto the boardwalk, but I had to take the picture from inside because they had just locked up the doors, probably because it was raining.





My fiancé pointed out the bird sitting out there, so I took a pic of it.






I could have stared at the ocean forever, it’s just so calming!
 
We saw this and we’re like, “I’ve heard of Turkey Hill before!!”

I freaked when I saw these!!! They are the same kind of chairs that they have on American Idol!!!! Of course, I’m sure the ones that American Idol has are made of better material, because these were so light. But I loved them! When my fiance and I have a house someday, I would love to have a little bar at the kitchen with these chairs to sit in!!! I bet I could find some!

And that was the end of day 2. Only one more day of our vacation is left to recap. Look for that post tomorrow! And if you’ve missed parts 1-3, check them out here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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