Atlantic City 2012

For my mom's graduation we decided to go together as a family to the beach for the weekend. We headed to AC where we have a time share and had a wonderful fall weekend at the beach. Paul and I were planning to go down Thursday but Maeve had a function at school Friday so I sent Eric and Paul down to AC by themselves Thursday night.  All I know is that Paul danced.  Hee hee.

When we arrived Friday it was sunny and warm enough for the kids to play in the ocean.  There was NO one on the beach.  It made me wonder why I drag them there in the hot summer and fight for a spot!

We enjoyed a few hours of sand play before we headed to our favorite AC restaurant -- Back Bay Ale House.  It is a local shack on the bay side and they have the BEST sauce called Ju Ju Slather that they put on their food.  I could eat it on everything! It is a mixture of rum, honey and lots of spices.

We came back to the resort and relaxed together.  Saturday morning we were up early for a bike ride on the boardwalk.  Because it was off season the boardwalk was empty.  We rode most of the way down and back and we really enjoyed the ocean views. 

It was pretty cloudy on Saturday so we went to the inside pool instead of the beach.  We read in the newspaper that it was Oktoberfest in town so we headed to find that and it was awesome!  We got these beer steins that were exactly the same as the ones we had in Germany.  It was $10 for the stein filled with beer which is a steal.  We had sausage and cabbage and sauerkraut.  yum!!!!

It was a little chilly so the kids snuggled up in MomMom's sweatshirt.

After drinking liters of beer we were a little tired and loopy.  We went home and took very long naps.  After nap we walked the boardwalk and had a seafood meal at Harry's Oyster House.  We headed to the Steel Pier for carnival rides and go karts and mom got her salt water taffy.

Sunday was nice weather again!  So we headed to the beach for a last hurrah.  The kids were happy as can be and again we were virtually alone.

Before we all headed home we grabbed some boardwalk pizza... look at this thing!!!!  It was $24 bucks and 7 of us didn't finish it!!!!

It was a great weekend and our first vacation with my brother, parents and the kids all together.  I think we all enjoyed our time together and I hope we can do it again soon!!!!