Growing Gieslers: Back from the Beach

Over the last weekend we all went with Amy's family down to Ocean City, Maryland for Addison's first beach experience. We left very early on Saturday morning, around 6:30, and made the 4 hour drive, according to Mapquest in about 4 1/2 hours, which is great considering we were travelling with a 3-week-old. We only made one stop in Delaware, amid pouring rain, to gas up and change a diaper.

Ocean City is always fun but it was hard to go and only stay for a few days. Our hotel/condo room was right on the beach on the first floor of a 4 story building. The backyard was a fenced in area of sand that was great for paddle ball and bocce ball. The first day we were there was mostly rainy, which was troubling to us as back in PA it had been raining the past two weeks.
Highlights of the trip were eating at Phillip's Seafood Buffet, where we really got our money's worth. Andrew had 5 plates of food, then dessert.

The next day was father's day and it was lots of fun. The weather was a lot better so we got to go to the beach for a long time. There was much bocce ball to be played and golf to be watched as the US Open was on. We went to the boardwalk and did some shopping, though we ended up only buying a shirt for Addison and some Dairy Queen/Orange Julius.

The beach weather on Monday, the day we left, was great and we spent most of the time we were there out in the sand. Addison did very well on the trip home as well, sleeping almost the entire 4 1/2 hours back home.

Here are some pictures from the trip...