We Interrupt the Summer Vacation...

The further adventures of the terrible twosome on summer vacation will return after this short message (which was too entertaining not to post immediately...).

Summer Vacation Part 1: The Water

The Terrible Twosome enjoyed a few weeks of sand, sea, and even the occasional moment of sunshine. The first few days were dedicated to exploring the kiddie pools left by the tide - or, in Anneke's case, to endlessly tasting and re-tasting the water, each finger-test followed by the delighted (and, for some reason, invariably surprised) exclamation: "Salty!!"
Once that extraordinary discovery was sufficiently documented, however, she enjoyed splashing around in the water under the pretext of collecting sea shells:

Lautje's approach was coarser but efficient. He, too, wanted sea shells - but instead of laboriously picking them up one after the other, he decided to simply shovel them into the bucket sand and all:

And then there was the real sea. Anneke preferred to observe it from the safety of her mother's arms:

Lautje, on the other hand, eventually gathered enough courage to experience the waves first-hand - insisting, however, that he not be the only one whose feet and legs got cold, wet and sandy...