Whidbey Visit

Since it's annual "Todd gets to watch heaps of Lacrosse" weekend, the kids and I went over to the beach  house on Whidbey for low tide. It's a pretty amazing place to be for a low tide, the beach stretches so far, the creatures are plentiful, and the sand is soft for digging.

 

Grey weather and a little rain never slows down the Zackeys

 

In the hole he quickly dug

  

a happy sand man

In the afternoon we had a great visit to the "Castle Playground" on the island. Seeing as it was still drizzly, the kids practically had the place to themselves,

so there was lots of swinging: 

and fake sleeping while "flying":

and lots of climbing and sliding and craziness with another little boy over a the skate park:

 

I had a hard time catching any of the sliding action, it was pretty killer though!

My aunts and their families arrived later and we got to visit with them a bit, the big cousins are always fun to read with and show off for.

Now we're really looking forward to our vacation there with summer!