Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Ickes Family Beach Trip 2005

Wildwood, NJ

Last week I went to Wildwood beach with Ryan and his family. We spent a lot of time in the ocean and on the boardwalk. Almost every night on the boardwalk, Ryan and I shared Dippin’ Dots. We also played shuffle board. I had never played before, but it is a rather fun game. We ate tons of sea food and ice cream… mmmmmmmm! We went to this ice cream shop called “Cool Scoops” three nights that we were there. It was like we were taking a trip back to the sixties. All of the decorations and stuff in the store was from back when. It was so awesome, and the ice cream was great!

We would walk on the beach in the morning. The one morning, Ryan and Brandon found about 200 hermit crabs. Another day, Paula found a star fish. In the evening, we would go on the board walk. Every 2 minutes we’d hear, “Watch for the tram car please!” Brian and the kids took a monster truck ride off of the board walk and we watched fireworks there. We went to Atlantic City one night. It was basically what I expected. Ryan had fun gambling my money.. hehe. We lost $25, and then he lost $23 trying to win me some back. It was a wonderful week.



Ryan and Me

Entrance to the boardwalk

Brandon Boogie Boarding

Brian and Hayden

Ryan, Hayden, and Brian

Walking on the boardwalk

Chris and Shannon

The Twins

Ryan enjoying our dippin' dots

Us playing shuffle board like old folks on a cruise... hehe

Ryan and his mom

Brandon and Me

Hayden kissing Ryan

Hayden and Me

Me, Hannah, Ryan, and Paula

Ryan and Me at the Crab Shack

Brandon, Shannon, and Chris

Linda with her Lobster!

Brandon with his lobster

Ryan and Me in the awesome booths at Cool Scoops

Chris and Shannon sharing icecream

The family at cool scoops

Linda and her girls

Linda getting kisses from her daughters

Us girls in the pink cadillac (Ryan took this picture and missed half of the car!)

The boys finding hermit crabs

The hundreds of hermit crabs that the boys found

Brian and Brandon Boarding

The baby at the beach!

Linda and Sis

Me and the boys on the Tram Car ("Watch for the tram car please!")

Brian and the kids on the monster truck ride

Brandon, Me, and Ryan at Bally's Wild West Casino in Atlantic City

Me and Ryan... opps haha..that is the monkey outside Rainforest Cafe, Trump Plaza

Me and my boys in the morning

Ryan and Me at Schellenger's (a very good sea food restaurant)

Chris and Shannon

Hannah and Hayden

Me and Elvis at Cool Scoops (Ryan told me not to wear a coat, so he ended up giving me his shirt since I was freezing!)

Us sitting in the cool car

Brandon and Chris

The starfish that Paula found

I tried out the underwater feature of my waterproof digital camera.... here's Hannah sticking her tounge out underwater.

Hannah and Hayden eating lunch that the sea gulls eventually got

My boy playing some ball on the beach

Hayden and his grandma playing in the sand

Ryan trying to boogie board

The boys cooked dinner for us the last night, after we slaved away for them all week ;-)

Ryan and Brandon playing shuffle board

Shannon and Chris in the cool car

The whole family the last night we went to Cool Scoops (the 3rd time... haha)

Hayden giving me a kiss

The boys intently playing arcade games... they are nuts!

Fireworks on the boardwalk!
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