Wednesdays Shenanigans

Today is Wednesday and I am so happy to report that we have had FOUR AMAZING days so far in Stone Harbor, NJ!!  The weather has been perfect and we have had not rain yet!! WHOOP!!! This happened today at the beach...we were greeted by this sight about 200 yards from us.  I am sorry...I know there are a lot of opinions on this but I just have to say that I feel like as a people we are being less and less considerate of others and more focused on themselves. This was a 12 foot square fort constructed on the beach by two adults.... please let me be precise... no children all day just two adults reading!  They have two umbrellas, two chairs and their compound!!!  The point is not how much room they are taking or who they are vlocking it is simply not necessary to construct something this hideous when people are trying to enjoy nature!!!!   And most of all… Imagine if everyone did this… At the beach would be completely filled with ugly corrals! Ugh!!! Lets be considerate again people!

 

Tuesday night was National Night Out! They put on a really cool outdoor activity at area in Stone Harbor for the kids! They had a bounce house, police cars to sit in, fire trucks to sit in, face painting and balloon art! Hopefully  this will be the only time we see this girl in the back of a police car! 

 

 We came to this a few years ago also when we were here in Stoneharbor. The most adorable little girl was making balloon art and she was here again this year. She's so cute and she absolutely loves what she's doing. She made a butterfly and a bunny for the girls.

  They had something they kept calling beer goggles. They were goggles the kids put on so that they would see what it look like to have been drinking. Here's the demo they did with each of the kids…  National night out from ann wolfe on Vimeo.    Since we had so many beautiful days at the beach we decided to take a days break and go shop at a nearby town Cape May.  We shopped a little and then ended up having lunch at this place called Delaney's. It was really good! 

 

Here's the family posing at the table waiting for lunch…

  When we got home from shopping I needed to use up the old bananas. What better way than banana bread?!?!?  It's a crowd favorite and is soon as we baked it the bananas were gone immediately! Here's what I did… Smashed up four bananas and the recipe follows...

Banana Bread

 

Smash 4 ripe bananas

1/3 cup melted butter

Mix with wooden spoon

Add 1 beaten egg

1 tsp vanilla

Mix more with wooden spoon

1 tsp baking soda and 1 pinch salt sprinkled over the top of mixture

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups flour

Mix all together and pour in 9 X 9 greased pan

bake at 350 for approx 40 minutes

 

Yummy!!!!

 

 We  figured since we got home from shopping and still had a few hours before dinner we could have a pool party over at the place my mom and dad were renting for the week. So we bought margarita mix for the adults and strawberry daiquiri mix for me and the kids! We took the blenders over and had drinks by the pool at my parents rental! The kids liked theirs so much, they had another with their dinner!

 

After dinner we wanted to take the kids crabbing. So we grabbed the crab pots and off we went!

We had all their crabbing meat and our crab pots… What more do you need? For those that do not know… Crabbing meat is just chicken legs or chicken necks.

As soon as we got there we tied a chicken leg into the middle of each net and dropped them to soak on the bottom and waited for the crabs to climb in. The sunset was so pretty on the Bay we couldn't resist getting a picture! How great is this one?!? Such cuties!

 

We tied the pots onto this railing so they could just sit and wait and not have to hold the string.

They were sooo excited when they got their first Maryland Blue crab! Here they and it are!!!! Lol!!!! See it in there?!? We just caught and released.... no intention to keep it and cook but it was a keeper size!!!!

And this is the second one...its a little smaller and we threw him back too.

The kids had a blast and they did not want to leave but it was getting dark and i am not a fan of fishing in the dark...you never know what you will pull from the ocean at night-lol!! I promised i would take them again tomorrow! I am soo happy they had fun and enjoyed it! I think i finally got the gist of using my ipad to blog so hopefully i will be able to post daily...we shall see... I hope everyone is having an awesome week!! I miss all your blogs! I am going to catch up by reading on the beach tomorrow hopefully!!   Anyone else struggle to post from an iPad? Anyone else go crabbing? Do you catch and release or take home and prepare when you fish?