Holly hangs out in the camper while we set up at Elk
Neck State Park in North East, MD

Ready for the great outdoors!

Just relaxing and enjoying the
sunny day

Just sitting around doing nothing is a
nice activity sometimes

Faith and Thea are impatient to get down to
the beach on the Chesapeake Bay

It's less sand than dirt, and the water is muddy and the shore
is rocky... but that doesn't matter to kids who want to swim!

Holly didn't have a swimsuit so this shirt and shorts were
sacrificed -- they did not come clean after this

Running on the beach

An ominous sea serpent in a fun tire playground near the beach

Dan on the tire serpent's back

Thea spent most of her time sailing back and forth
on the zip line

Faith relaxing on the warm tires

Faith supervises Holly and Shiann on their big wheels

Holly is happy to get to wear her panda bike helmet

Thea found a box turtle off in the woods

Eastern Box Turtle

Holly and Shiann play with the long-suffering turtle

Holly was finally convinced to pick up the
turtle, but just this once

Kids had the run of the area surrounding the campsites of the
three families on the trip

Colin, Holly and Shiann on the monkey bars

Thea, Paige, Faith, Colin, Lea, Justin, Holly and Shiann --
in chronological order!

Goofy kids!