Just keep swimming

Here in Washington the schools have a mid - winter break in the middle of February. I guess that's why they go to school until the end of June. Since this was our first mid-winter break we decided to head down to Cannon Beach since it has been about 4 months since we had last been there. It had been even longer for Dave. So we headed to the stormy Oregon Coast.

Now if you have ever been to the Oregon Coast you know how the weather is pretty unpredictable. You could have sun one minute and hail the next. Well as we made our way down for our week off, it was not the best trip. The usual 4 hour trip took us over 6. You'd have thought we were driving from Idaho still. We made it thru the rain and finally got everyone settled and in bed.

Then the power went out. At least we were all asleep and cozy in our beds. Surprisingly that was the only time the power went out. It was a crazy stormy week. There were a couple of times that the sun poked it's head out and we got to go down to the beach and over to the park, but otherwise, we spent a lot of time inside playing games and working on our handstands and cartwheels for gymnastics.

One day we decided to take the kids to the Astoria Aquatics center. Grandma came along with us so that she didn't have to sit around and watch Grandpa work. We had lots of fun playing in the water. So here are a few of our family having a little bit of fun indoors.

Above is me and the girls going down the lazy river. It turns out it wasn't turned on when we first got there. This made me happy because I thought it was taking a lot of work to be lazy.
Here we are in the hot tub. It was nice and warm. The other pool was too, but once I got in the hot tub there was no way I was going back into the freezing cold that would now be the other pool.
Us again. At least Sydney is smiling this time. Of course Jacob is now staring at Sydney. Who knows why.
Abby was riding on my back and I'm hugging a bouncy ball if you wonder what that is. We enjoyed the lazy river and the boys had fun going down the slide. Noah can really make a splash.
Dave is watering Abby in the hopes that she will grow. She's such a tiny thing. Actually I think she might fit into her size 3 pants now that she is almost 4.
We put Abby in the lazy river (it was turned on now) and had her swim from Dave to me. She didn't have to work as hard and she had a lot of fun.
She finally started going around by herself. When it was time to go she didn't want to. I think she was the last one out of the pool.
Our little fish Sydney. She loves the water. In her swim lessons last year she jumped 2 classes because she did so good.
That's the boys being crazy. I wondered if they were going to get into trouble by the lifeguards, but I think they only had to tell them not to climb over the walls once.
My little duckling and me. Such a fun day.

After we got changed and sort of dried off we went to get lunch and ended up at the Wet Dog Cafe. That was a perfect end to a fun, wet day.