The Beach!

We had a great time at the beach two weeks ago!  The whole week was great, even though the weather at the beginning wasn't the best.  The first couple days the red flags were up, so unfortunately the ocean was off limits,
but we found lots of things to do besides swimming in the ocean,

and just enjoyed being together :).

Mr. Smith {and his shoes!} played basketball with us :).


Dave is so adorable!!





Mrs. Smith playing "hostess" at the huge house near where we were staying!

Up on the lighthouse (I made it all the way up to the top, Mr. C, but facing my fear didn't seem to take it away....)

More cuteness :)

A sunrise beach-walk


We saw sooo many dolphins this year!  There were probably hundreds of them passing by one evening....


So ever since I saw a silhouette that one of my classmates took at IPS, I've wanted to get a good one myself.  However, I didn't think it would be as easy as it looked, so when I saw the boys standing in front of the water towards late afternoon, I snuck behind them and soon decided to try to get a silhouette.  I was sooo excited when I got this!!  I loved the fact that it was a silhouette, but I also really liked the message that it portrayed - if you know anything about how much Pete looks up to Ben, I feel like this picture totally captures that.
After capturing the candid shot, I got them involved and had them write with their hands. ("What can we spell with only two people?"  "Yo!!"  :D)
Then we enlisted Samuel, and got WoW :).  (Or, according to the boys, it is also a face. {It took me a minute to see it!} :P)  Needless to say, I was ecstatic!
Later on with Elizabeth A., we dragged the boys back to the beach to be our jumping models :).  They didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but I loved Ben's pose in this ;D


We had sea kayaks this year, which was great fun!  I've never kayaked on the ocean before, but I enjoyed them ;).

Epic candid pose :).
We adventured into the unknown parts of the sand dunes searching for wild horses, but although we found really pretty places, we never found the horses....
 
Our towel creations!

Crabbing!!

More adorable-ness :)


Trying to catch a seagull :)
 
 
 
At IPS I learned about lens-flipping (which makes you able to take macro pictures, which I love!), so Liz and I tried it on the prickly thorns that covered the "grass"
 
Our group - you guys are the best!!

One Response so far.

  1. Laurence Elizabeth says:
    October 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM

    Great pics Christa! Looks like ya'll had fun! Remind me to show you some really cool silhouette photos that I took on a lake... sorta on accident! :)

    <3

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