Sorry for the slow blogging these last few days! Do you ever have those vacations where you come back more tired and grumpy than before?

I was so excited about our trip to our old home-state (Maryland! Crabs! Family! Friends!), but I managed to give Cath and Matt a stomach flu. If you had any doubts before, stomach flu and 14-hour road trips do not mix well. Between the three of us being sick I think we had 4 good days sans nausea – so we had to make the most of it.

Look, here is Cath (pre-stomach flu) looking so cute, prepping for Maryland crabs and cold beer (nom!):

Once you get outside of the trashier bits of Ocean City (I use the descriptor “trashy” fondly), there are some great gems like roadside farm stands:

. and wild ponies/horses on Assateague Island:

Ooo and crab cakes, sweet corn and Boardwalk fries (again pre-stomach flu):

Watching clouds that look like jelly fishies! Does that only happen by the ocean?

Running away from dinosaurs:

Then hiding from them:

Cloudy beaches:

Yummy fruity drinks (that would have been alcoholic if I hadn’t just gotten over the stomach flu):

I apologize if I just said “stomach flu” like three million times in one post. I find it funny though, if you just look at these pics, it looks like we had a perfect vacay and I should be feeling nicely tanned and perfectly refreshed.  I didn’t take any photos of me gripping a plastic bag around my face and shivering in the front seat of the car. I wouldn’t want to inflict that on any of our lovely readers, but that’s kind of what I think of when someone asks “How was your vacation?!” “My wahh-huh?”

And we missed you guys! We’ll be back to regular blogging (sans mention of beach or flu) shortly!