Navarre 2011

51 more weeks until Navarre...

My annual Roberts' family vacation with the Louisiana/Texas Krewe has come and gone.

My vacation looks pretty much the same year to year. I read a lot of trashy books. This year, I managed 5 books- with one "intellectual" read thrown in just to make my family think I have some brain cells left.

I think there are 28 of us in our vacation group? Some nights we all eat together, and some nights (like the picture above), we split up and wine and dine in the condos.

A family picture with Dave's parents.

No one knew I was an expert at the hoola-hoop. I might sound a little cocky, but I was 8th grade hoola-hoop champion. You have NO IDEA how much practice I put into the hoola-hoop in order to beat Meredith Smith for the crown. We battled for YEARS- and finally, my hard work paid off and the hoola-hoop crown was MINE!!!!
When everyone thought it would be fun to "try" to hoola hoop after a day of drinking, I was able to showcase my very best talent. Effortless! Ha ha!!!!!

Us again.

Our vacay dinners are top notch. We never eat out- ever. We have the best meals around. Here, the boys put together a dinner with fresh fish that they caught the day before and boiled shrimp/corn/potatoes. Yummmm!!!!!!!!!

It should come as no surprise that I gained 5 pounds over the week. If you saw the food menu for the week, you would understand. I am sure the "who wants a boat drink?" at 10am every day didn't help me either. Or the fact that I ate cookies and rum cake all day long for a snack. Come to think of it, I don't think I ate a single piece of fruit and hardly a vegetable the whole week. No wonder my body is in complete shock right now and going through detox.

Some good years....

Gorgeous sunsets every night...

One of our legendary Jenga games. We did not beat Jenga this year, though, like we did in 2009.

The immediate family: James, Stephanie, Dave, Damie, Joe, Carol, Judy, and Pop Pop