Beach day!

I had my "sleep-in-morning-of-the-week" today so Alex took the children this morning and walked down to the beach. They were back when I woke up and after eating we all took the car to where you can drive on the beach. It is so much easier that way with all the stuff that we bring (toys, umbrella, surf board, snacks etc). It was a great day, not so windy but big waves. Lately we have had a few days with lots of rain and wind. The beach patrol has even had the "no-swimming" flag up. Well, today it was nice and a lot of people went to the beach. 

Surfers don't care much about flags... ;-)

A very rare species appeared in our garden when it was raining a lot!! :-D

After we had been on the beach for an hour or so we heard sirens and an ambulance and two beach patrol cars drove by us. A Dutch woman, about 100m (350ft) from us, had been attacked by a shark. It had bitten her in her leg. Nothing serious but they took her to the hospital to be on the safe side. Me personal, think that the mental damage is a lot bigger than the physical harm these shark attack makes here. The beached here in Volusia county has more shark attacks than any other place in the world, apparently more than the whole of Australia. BUT they are not fatal, which they are in a lot of other places so it does not seem to bother people that much here. I still don't know that I think. We were definitely more careful in the water after the woman was attacked. Over all we had a great day on the beach with swimming, surfing, soccer playing (even Noah) and ice cream!

Just like pappa!!

A shark attack does not scare the people on the beaches here!

We had an ice cream before we dared to go in the water again

Alex is getting up on the surf board!

...and he is standing!

Yes, it is time to get Noah a new care seat!

Everyone is sleeping now so it is time for me to do the same! See you soon!!