While Dad's away, the kids will play!

Gordon went on a fishing trip with his Dad and a couple of buddies last weekend, so Jude and I and Dallas and Nicole met Monica & Sean, Ricky & Summer, and Ty & Tori, at Bullard's Beach in Bandon. We went to the Wild Animal Park again this year and the kids loved petting the animals. As we walked in, this crazy Peacock was doing a little mating dance and the kids thought it was pretty cool to see all it's feathers, but didn't like it's cawing or ruffling his tail feathers very much. After we walked away and went to look at some other stuff, Summer tried to take another picture of it and it totaled charged her and she had to run to get away...it was hilarious!!!!

At "Nurseryland" the kids got to pet a de-scented skunk...Jude was still weary of the skunk:

Brody liked holding the possum baby:

Kai liked the ferret:

And the ferret really liked Kai:

In fact, he liked Kai so much, that he climbed into his hood and wanted to stay there.

Kai thought it was pretty funny:

Then they all took turns petting the leopard cub. Jude and Kai are the only two that I got pictures of:

There was some digging in the sand after the park, and Maile thought she could maybe tan her backside a bit before the summer really starts! (Summer actually took this picture with Jude's camera and I thought it was hilarious by cracky!)

Aunt Nicole bought all the kids new sand digging equipment and they had a great time building! Plus Monte showed them some sand crabs and helped with the sand buildings. Sean, Ricky and Jared went beach fishing while we went to the park, so we rode our bikes to the beach to meet them. The kids love to ride their bikes, but Maile got tired about the first 1/2 mile, so she rode in the bike trailer with Kai and Brody and Ty carried her bike. It was pretty funny to see Ty riding his bike with a little pink bike on his shoulder! Ricky caught one fish and a guy that was leaving gave him a second, so that night he and Jared cooked them up and had a snack. After dinner we put the kids to bed and sat around the campfire. It was lot of fun!