Jennifer's 365 Project

We spent the day at the beach in Grand Haven. It was so busy and I'm glad we arrived before noon and had packed lunch.
It took about two hours before the little one would get in the water. He's still not a fan of water in general and definitely not cold water that might splash his face, but we're making progress.

So much for rain all weekend! It was revised late Saturday to rain-free skies until Monday. We always get up early and it's supposed to be hot today, which seemed like a perfect beach day.
We were there for a few hours and had a good time. Plenty of snack breaks!
He wasn't super interested in sand castles yet, but we're getting there. The big excitement was having the waves crash into him. If I was only a foot taller than the waves I'd think they were pretty cool too!

This afternoon we headed out to Grand Haven to visit Corinne, who works downtown there. Quinn fell asleep on the ride over there and was pretty committed to his nap, even after we'd parked.
Once he woke up he was ready to go. He enjoyed pushing his stroller around on the boardwalk along the water. We had a great time catching up with Corinne and enjoying the outdoors.

Instead of Dan and Lolo visiting at our house, we drove over to their place this morning. Quinn had a fun time with all of the new toys.
In the afternoon we met our friend Corinne in Grand Haven and took Quinn to the beach. It was his visit trip to the beach and once he got going he enjoyed splashing in the water and playing with the sand.

The sky over the freeway was a reminiscent Darkshore this morning.
Sans pier, of course.

Chris and I headed out the door on the early side today to check out the Grand Haven Art Festival. The weather was pleasant in the morning, and complete with sunny skies.


There were a few different interesting art pieces of various mediums, though most were paintings and photographs.


The art fair was only along one main road in Grand Haven, so we walked through it relatively quickly. But there are plenty of other sights to see in the area! We walked along the water front all the way down to the beach and lighthouse. It was a little before noon when we got out there, so the beach wasn't packed yet.


The rest of the afternoon was a leisurely one. I took nap, watched a few Space Ghost Coast to Coast videos through xfinity on the iPad, and read some of my book.

In the evening we took another stroll, though this one around the apartment complex. The above photo is from Chris's phone. I'm really impressed with his new phone (HTC Evo 4G) and it's ability to take photos in the dark.

For the 4th of July we headed over to Grand Haven in the evening for their fireworks show.  The first order on the agenda after the sun had set was a 4th of July edition of the musical fountain Grand Haven has.  An interesting and odd experience.



I brought the tripod and SLR along to attempt some fireworks photography.  For a first attempt it wasn't bad, but admittedly a lot of them are out of focus.  I thought I'd had the camera manually set to a good focal point but I think it was a combination of leaving the shutter open too long and not being properly focused to "infinity."

Still, a few shots came out interesting and odd (as you can see here) and I've placed them up on my flickr page, here, if you're interested.