The girls got their first trip to the New Jersey shore and boardwalk today. We took the chance on the 40% chance of showers and met my parents down there. There were a few "sun showers" but other than that we lucked out as it didn't start to rain until we were leaving.

And thanks to Hurricane Bill who came by off the coast yesterday, the waves were pretty big. We spent the afternoon going on rides. I'll thank Hurricane Bill again for the remnants that came through yesterday for leaving the shore empty which meant no crowds and no lines.

I even got to enjoy a Kohr's orange cream twist ice cream cone with Alysa. YUM!

Carousel


The big ferris wheel


The swinging whale



Bumper Cars


On the roller coaster


Kayla tried the "kiddie" go karts but didn't have the strength for the peddle and bottle necked everyone and had to get off. She took it well though.




They both loved the sand too - that is until they realized how hard sand is to clean off.





Alysa is the world's neatest ice cream eating 3 year old. She didn't get a drop on her. She's so careful with the dairy it makes my heart melt. And she won't touch anything until she's cleaned up afterwards either. But she was also SO excited, telling my Mom, "I ate lots of dairy dairy ice cream!"



Here is some video of them on the bummper cars and a car ride that whipped them pretty fast! They loved them.