We had our first vacation as a family of four over Easter holiday when we headed to Phuket, Thailand. While this is what one would consider an "easy" vacation (i.e. mainly spent on the resort), no trip with two very small children can actually be considered easy! So we had a wonderful time, and it was absolutely beautiful, but we hit the bed hard each night! It was also difficult to get photos and videos taken since we were doing man-to-man defense with the kids, so you'll have to settle for what follows.
And while we're at it, I'm going to go ahead and make a plea to our family to PLEASE, pretty please, help us some with the kids when we come back to the States over the summer! It's probably going to be a very difficult trip, especially with all the jet lag, changes in routine, etc.
Change, for those of you who have not recently had small children, is a young child's least favorite thing in the entire world. But let's not get ahead of ourselves and just enjoy these Thailand photos for now. Oh, and the food was AMAZING. Couldn't get enough of it!
The beach was quite private, away from the masses.
Thai massage huts by the beach-- only $13 USD for 1 hour!
Fire lighting at dusk
On our way to the pool for a late afternoon swim
Finley and Elise got to meet "Ya Ya", the baby elephant! Okay, I'll admit it: I was just as excited about Ya Ya as Finley was!
Some lovely blue doors at the entrance to one of the pools
We pretty much spent the whole vacation doing this:
It was a beautiful resort!
I have two different videos from Easter. The first is from our trip. Finley is riding the elephant and going down the water slide, which he did at least 15 times per day.
Click here to watch it, and please excuse the random people in swimsuits, as the elephant was right beside one of the pools.
The other video is an Easter egg hunt and Finley's Easter basket, and this video is probably for more of our die hard fans (our family).
Click here to watch it.
Coming soon to a computer near you: a video of Elise crawling!
