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Refreshed???

So, I didn’t pull a Michael Jordan and come out of retirement only to retire just a year later.  I know it’s been about a week and a half since my last post, but in that last week and a half my family and I have tried to spend some very specific time of unplugging and resting.  We are so blessed to be given some time down at the Jersey Shore and laugh, swim, crab, fish, sleep, refresh, and unplug as a family.  So we have been gone for the last week….  At first I felt bad that I hadn’t set up any posts to go live while I was gone, and then I just forgot about it.  Intentionally.

Refreshment is an integral part of any persons life.  However it is even more crucial for groups of people to do the same thing.  Think about  it… It’s hard enough to find times of refreshment for your own schedule.  Now try and schedule that with 4 peoples schedules.  Fortunately for us our kids schedules don’t run our life yet!

What do you do for refreshment?  Do you have any habits/practices/disciplines that you have built into your life to make sure that you have significant times of refreshment throughout your life? Let’s hear it.

Here are some of the pictures from our week together!  We had a blast!

~Peter

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Pictorial update

Here is our “special” treat. FLUSHIES!!!

Hatteras[Day/7]

All I have to say is PACKING DAY!  Boy oh boy… I am really tired of packing.  Today was a great day. We went surfing this morning, spear fishing after that, and then up to the beach.  Surfing was okay.  The waves built overnight, and we had a fun little session out there.  Spear fishing was weak to say the least.  There was a major rip, and it was generous enough to give me my life back!  :)  I was getting sucked out to sea.  Ah well, it made for an even more interesting spear fishing session.  The beach was perfect, and the weather was phenomenal.  We had an awesome week of weather overall, and a great time together with our family.  Noah and Grace love the ocean.  It has truly been a great vacation!  We drive home tomorrow morning early!  

The van is officially packed, minus some pillows.  Here’s the official shot of the van…  

5 bungees, 2 winch straps, a bike rack, and roof racks, and away we go...

PA here we come.  See you soon Doylestown.  Its been real Hatteras.  

~Peter

Hatteras[Day/6]

Surf Report: Building… Could be good tomorrow!

Water Temp: Stunning, maybe a titch colder than yesterday, but still great

Air Temp: 88

Weather: Is it possible to have another beautiful day in a row?  Hmm?  Well, the answer is, YES!  Gorgeous…

Fishing Report: Not quite as good as yesterday.  Spanish Mackerel are in the water, not on the line though!  Tried shark fishing tonight, lost our bait continually, however no Shark on the hook… 

Today is day 6.  It is the worst day of vacation possible in my mind.  You are constantly thinking that tomorrow will be the last day of vacation, and then you are trying to cram all of the things that you wanted to do all week into this one day.  Total bummer.  It even is worse than the actual last day because the suspense of the day coming is torture!  Even though it was day six, it was a pretty great day 6.  Noah and Grace were having a great time on the beach, and the water was really fun today.  We had a Luau themed dinner tonight.  Hawaiian Chicken and Pineapple ca-bobs, as well as veggie ca-bobs.  It was awesome.  

Here is the daily pictorial update:  

Tonight we returned to the same spot on the beach to take family pictures with the whole family!  All of us trying to smile at the same time!  How great is that?  Let me tell you what… It was a task and a half.  But it went well.  

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Tomorrow morning is going to be fun.  Spear fishing here we come!  

~Peter

Hatteras[Day/5]

Surf Report: Just about flat

Water Temp: Perfect

Air Temp: 88

Weather: Smokey from the fire on the mainland…

Fishing Report:  Enough Said…

Today was a great day… We had a great day at the beach, a great day behind the reel, and a great day getting our family pictures taken!  We had an unbelievable day.  We took just about 460 pictures today.  Don’t worry, I won’t have all them here for you.  I will have a selection of them for you.  Check it out…  Here’s the daily pictorial update… 

 

Also, here is a movie update!

~Peter  

Feeling far more relaxed today than when we got here on Saturday!