Day 18 - A Week at the Beach

Larkin just experienced his first Gillespie Family Vacation (very similar to the Griswold's, actually). We went to...

(That is a crab magnet that says Myrtle Beach. Why didn't we buy that??)

 I literally have 741 pictures from this vacation. And since I had the horrible brilliant idea to blog every day for the month of July, you get to see all 741of them. Psych! (80's reference... anyone?) But you do get to see some of the pics spread out over every day this week. So here it is: Our Week at the Beach.

To start us off, let's set the scene.

Here.



(Somewhere in the left side of the pic)

 A closer view of our resort...

 Ok, here it is in the background. It was the big momma.

And here is the cast and crew:

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Wes left before we could get a decent group shot. Anyway, this was the village that took care of Baby Larkin this week. And it did take a village.

Onto the beach.

 We had to take a short trek through the dune grass to get there.

 And at first Larkin didn't get to experience it too much because I really didn't want to have to bathe him before bed.

 But the next day, he got to explore. A little tentative for his first feel of the sand.

 But he dug right in!

 Then his daddy took him into the water.

Again with the uncertainty.

 

And then he got dunked by his first wave and it didn't phase him a bit.

 So soon-to-be Uncle Wes got out the toys.

 And Larkin got out the crack.

 And this is how it ended that first day...

 

 Perfectly happy!