Home Sweet Home

We are home from the beach. We had a great week in Panama City but are glad to be home. You are about to see more pictures of the Ring family than you ever cared to see. Sorry, I just can't help myself. We started the week off with beautiful weather and crystal clear water. The kids had a great time paying in the sand

catching jellyfish (notice the little 5 year old boy in the background more on this later)



flying kites



and never fear we didn't go a week without a baseball game they even managed to get a full baseball game in on the beach.



On Monday it rained almost the entire day so the kids/teens spent part of the day trying to complete a 500 piece very difficult puzzle. By 2:00 the teens had seen enough of the rain and the puzzle and decided to head to Hooters. They said they got ripped off because their waitress was OLD she was like 40 years old. Better alert the morgue she will be killing over any minute now at that age. So anyway they were then back to completing the puzzle (which they did accomplish after 2 days). I spent the day shopping at the new Pier outdoor mall. It is a great mall with some very interesting stores.





We awoke Tuesday morning walked out on the balcony and this is what we saw.....




no, the beach did not grow lush green grass overnight it was SEAWEED and it was BAD!!!!



We have been going to Panama City for over 15 years and I have never seen the seaweed like this . It was fascinating. When you would step on it it was like being in quicksand you would actually sink down into it about a foot.


So needless to say our next few days were spent at the pool hearing mom look dad look and seeing at least 1000 tricks a day :)












The teen boys spent a lot of time in the hot tub during the seaweed attack. Notice the little boy in the background again. Every time I went to take a picture of the boys this little boy was in the background. Finally in this picture I said excuse me would you move over just a little so I can get a picture to which all the boys replied he is fine just take the picture. The litttle boy informed me his name was "Chipper Jones the best player in Major League Baseball and he was friends with all of these guys". Well come to find out "Chipper" had a really hot sister who also brought along really hot friends. Who said these boys weren't smart?





Well....... I guess their plan worked notice the hot girls in the hot tub and who is front and center none other than "Chipper" . At least they have a good story to tell when they get home they were hanging out in the hot tub with Chipper Jones and a bunch of hot girls.



We went to a great local restaurant in Panama City called the Boathouse. The food was excellent and it also had a great atmosphere.



After dinner it was off to ride go-carts and play putt-putt. The older boys left us and headed to teen night at Club LaVela.

We also found time to visit the arcade across the street from our condo and of course Chandler immediately found the only baseball game in the arcade. He must have been having baseball withdrawals.

Later that night the older boys decided to walk across the street to Wendys. The inside was closed so only the drive through was open. Being teens they decided to walk through the drive through after ordering and waiting in line for 10 minutes they were informed they could not serve walkers in the drive through. After much thought and debate they decided to ask someone in a car to place their order for them. Order placed, food in hand, now back to the condo to enjoy the food. Oh wait not so fast here comes the rain storm, paper bags do not hold up well when wet. Next thing you know there is food all over the street and we are watching from the balcony laughing . There were not to many dull moments on this trip. If you look closely you can see the boys making their way to Wendys.

I will leave you with one last story from our trip. For those of you that do not have teens yet this is what you have to look forward to. One night around 3:00am Jason thought he heard the door open a few minutes later he got up to check well sure enough the room that the 5 teen boys should be in is empty. Jason being the calm, rational dad that he is decided to let them have their fun but pay for it later. He set a trap on the inside of the door of coolers, beach pails, beach chairs, etc.. so when they came home and opened the door they would know they had been busted. Needless to say had I have heard the door my reaction would have been MUCH different. But his worked perfectly. When they arrived home and realized they had been caught they had to spend the rest of the night worrying about what we were going to say. I would just loved to have heard that conversation. They did however devise a great story of a girl texting them to come and help her because she found a cat on the beach with rabies and they needed to call animal control. Are you kidding me how do they come up with these stories? So as you can see we had a fun and eventful week at the beach. We are now home unpacked and ready to start a new week. We will however be leaving again on Wednesday after work to go to Mackinaw Island and then on to the Upper Peninsula to visit Jason's family. I will try and post again before we leave.

Take care and enjoy your kids while they are happy digging in the sand not rescuing cats from the sand. :)

Michelle