Club Med (the "Sandpiper", in Port St Lucie, central Florida) was our choice for this year's family holiday, primarily because it offered full-day child care.  There was of course offered as well, a cruise-ship's worth of cuisine (French) and activities (sportive):   tennis, golf, sailing, shooting, swimming, yoga, volley ball, skating, water skiing, (shopping?!)...... there was even a full-scale flying trapeze.   But the family cameras were unlimbered mostly at the shows put on by the Baby-Club (lots of glamorous "theater"), and down at the beach, where we engaged in a relentless pursuit of getting a family photo.   This latter required assembling all fourteen of us together at the same time and place, and (for the little ones) in a state of health and emotion that allowed of a smile at the command "cheese".    In this endeavor we eventually had some success, and, happily, were able to gather many ancillary photos in support, as amorphous gatherings of various subjects phased in and out of the scene.

First let's have a look at the dramatic poster-shots from the..... Baby-Club Theater.                         It's....

SHOWTIME ! SHOWTIME !! SHOWTIME !!!

Then there are:

Groupings of Various Folks

Family Portraits (alas perhaps a bit ragged;  candid snaps were taken by helpful passers-by)

Frolics on the Beach (Jan Willem built sand castles,  Lila would then turn herself into a human projectile and fly gleefully through the air, giggling wildly, to land on and demolish them).

Bubbles! Arthur constructed an apparatus to make giant bubbles, for the delight of every child on the beach, and of many of the adults

And here are:

Suave Samer

Vivacious Willem

No-Nonsense Nickie

Languid Lila

 

People,  ..... the Dahlmans' Visit

..... And as a Finalé..... Flying Critters! Peter, Pelicans, and  a Dominant Heron