What a weekend!

Dad celebrated his sixtieth birthday for two days. I suppose he's allowed. First, on Saturday, we traveled to Honeymoon Island for an afternoon of swimming and recreating. Today, we stayed at the beachhouse and sailed the Hobie, kayaked, snorkeled and floated in the waves. The water was an amazing shade of aqua green.

I had some fabulous beach time with Baby Rachel while her parents were sailing. We stood in the water and cried "weeeee" as we jumped each wave. She also particularly enjoyed watching me pack a bucket full of sand and turn it over into a castle. Then she would crash it with her hand and wait for me to do it again. Strangely, I don't remember the buckets having castle tops when I was a child. Later in the day, she actually reached for me to take her back in the water while Mom was watching her. Score one for Aunt Anne. Since it is the first time, though, I'll try not to let it go to my head.

During a long lunch we ate cake and continued the Rummikub saga. Today, in a desperate attempt to end his unlucky streak, Mike convinced Christina and Teenage Aerin to switch their tiles around. I was left holding 132 points. Ouch. Having Mike here for the weekend more than made up for the loss though. Although everybody ate cake, nobody enjoyed it quite as much as Baby Rachel.