Sunday, November 15, 2009

Las Dunas de Bilbao

Yesterday we drove out to Las Dunas de Bilbao. It's about a 40 minute drive or an hour and a half if you take a wrong turn. My bad.

Anyway, we have visited the sand dunes before and had a horrible time. I guess this is why we hadn't returned in the last 3 years. Dana, Eva and I went in July 2006. It's kind of weird looking at photos from that event and seeing Eva as a 1.5 year old and Micah in the womb. Weird. When we went in July it was 40 plus degrees and was absolutely no fun. Eva cried the whole time. But the kids are older now and it's winter here in Torreon which means it's only 27, so we thought we'd give it another go. IT WAS AWESOME!

We had originally thought it would be nice to get a family photo out there. But after Micah and Eva face planted on the first dune we thought better of it.

First things first, we have to get to the top of the dune.
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Micah chose to slide down.
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Eva chose to jump down. We tried to give her direction on leaning back but I guess it just didn't register with her. Good thing the sand was super soft.

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Normally Eva cries in these embarrassing situations but not this time. She came up laughing hard.

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Micah was trying to see how dirty he could get.
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Now Eva is getting it. Cool.
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Back to getting dirty.

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Eva was having so much fun going down.
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...not so much fun walking back up.
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And Micah dirty again.
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Eva climbing the dune.
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Josh was beaching it.
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Kicking it back with Mom.
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Okay, so the pants Micah wore were a touch too big. So he decided to strip down to his undies. I love this shot. Micah walking out in the desert in just his undies. Awesome.
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So then I asked Micah if he had to go pee and he said no. However, judging from the sand stuck to the front of his underwear I'd say he'd already taken care of business.
This was supposed to be just a shot of me but it's far better with Micah in it. Too funny.
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The dunes looked amazing at the end of the day.
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Time to hustle back to the van before the sun sets.
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What a great outing!

4 comments:

Bobbi said...

Looks like it was an amazing family outing! We loved ALL the pictures and the commentary helped to give us more insight into what we were seeing. So glad you finally had such a great experience at Las Duna de Bilbao!
love, Bobbi (Nana) & Bill (Papa)

Louise Chapman said...

What an amazing location, makes me want to go there right now! Looks like the kiddos all had tons of fun. Great photos, beautiful family, amazing scenery.

Caroline McClelland said...

Wow! those are THE coolest pics. Nice to get out and enjoy the dunes. I think Aurora needs dunes like that- I'll keep searching I guess. Everyone was obviously having fun. Beautiful family. The end shot of the dunes- Out of this world!!

Alice said...

Beautiful all around! Great pictures-really like the blue sky. Everyone looks just fabulous. The last photo is so telling of the fun day you had at the dunes.
love you all - Big Al and ma