** Above is a picture of the beach house that they have rented. 4 bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths. Private beach.

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The next morning, Kirstie walks out of the bathroom after getting dressed to find her boyfriend sitting up in bed. He was looking around as if he was looking for something.

"Baby, what are you looking for?" She ask as she slipped on her sandals.

"Wa Dag?" He ask, looking up at her with huge green eyes. (where's Dag)

So it wasn't her boyfriend but her little boy.

"We packed him up, remember?" She smiles sitting down on the side of the bed.

"Huh?" He ask, wrinkling his nose and tilting his head.

"We're going on vacation with Tim, Jenika and Adam. And we packed Dag and Al up to take with us." She says as she brushed back his tangled hair.

"Mmm pay Ad?" He smiles. His eyes lighting up.

"Mhmm, but you need to go get dressed. I think Kevin has laid out some clothes for you. You need to hurry. Cause we still have to stop by and pick them up." She smiles at the excitement in his eyes.

He scoots off of the bed and runs out of the room giggling. "Mmm pay Ad!"

Kevin help Patches get ready while Kirstie gets Emily ready. Soon they were locking up the house and headed for the RV. 

Patches holds Mack in his arms as he stares in wonder at the little house on wheels. He laughs loudly as Kevin begins to pull the little rolling house out of the driveway.

As they pull up in Tim's driveway, the front door opens and the pirate runs out wearing shorts, a batman tee shirt and sunglasses. Jenika comes out carrying Tim's crutches and leading Satchmo. Tim shuts the front door, locks it then follows them to the RV. 

Kevin chuckles as he opens the door for them.

"Ahoy there, Pirate Adam." Kevin grins as Adam comes inside the bus. "You excited?"

"I..I..weady." He giggles.

"AD!!!" Patches yells as he runs toward his friend.

"PATCHES??" He grins grabbing his friend in a hug. "We gonna...we gonna....we gonna."

"Adam, sweetie. I know your excited but slow down so you can talk." Tim says as he comes on the bus.

Adam takes a deep breath. "We gonna have  fun."

Patches giggles and nods. "Pun".

They make one quick stop at the grocery store. Kirstie and Jenika runs in and grabs a few things like drinks, snacks and stuff for sandwiches. 

Kevin put the address of the beach house into the GPS and they head out on the road.

Patches and Adam sat with their noses pressed against the window. All of this was so new to Patches. Adam would try to tell him what things were.

Tim made his way up to the front to keep Kevin company as Kirstie and Jenika played with Emily and chatted.

They had decided that since they had three drivers, they would drive straight through without stopping anywhere to spend the night. The only stops they would make would be for gas.

"You want me to drive a while?" Tim ask after a few hours on the road.

"Naw, I'm good. You can go take a nap if you want before your turn." Kevin says.

"Yea, I might ought to." Tim says as he turns and heads for the back lounge where it would be quieter.

He smiles at the boys as he walks by them. Adam was trying to explain to Patches what a cow was. 

"I'm going to lay down a bit before its my turn to drive." He says as he gives Jenika a kiss.

"Alright, Sweetie." Jenika smiles up at him.

"Where's Kirstie?" He ask.

"Oh I think she went to change Emily." Jenika says as she plays a game on her phone.

He nods and makes his way to the back lounge. When he slides back the door he was not ready for what he saw.

"OH MY GOD!!" Tim shouted in shock as he stares at Kirstie breast feeding Emily. "I'm...I'm so so sorry." He covers his eyes as his face turns red. He quickly turns around stepping on Jenika's foot. She had walked up behind him to see what was wrong.

"OWW! That's my foot." She screams moving out of his way.

"Sorry, Oh God, I'm so sorry." He mumbles as he heads back to the front.

Jenika peeks into the lounge to see what had Tim so upset.

She laughs loudly at Kirstie's stunned face as she breast fed her daughter.

"Sorry". Kirstie mouthed as Jenika wipe the tears from her eyes. Every time she thought of the shocked look on Tim's face, she would start laughing again.

She heads back to the front and finds her boyfriend sitting at the dining table with his face in his hands.

She wraps her arms around his neck from behind, kissing him on the ear.

"Sweetheart, it's alright." She giggles.

"Oh God, I am so embarrassed." Tim groans. "I had no idea she was back there. I don't want our only friends to think that I'm a pervert or something."

"Tim, I don't think that. You had no idea I was even back there." Kirstie say as she lays a sleeping Emily in her bassinet that they brought.

"Can I go take a nap, now that I've completely embarrassed myself?" Tim ask looking up at the girls, almost like a child asking permission.

"Go lay down." Jenika smile, running her hand through his hair.

"Sorry." Tim apologizes again as he looks at Kirstie.

"I'll be sure to warn you next time." She laughs and pats him on the shoulder.

"Please do." Tim chuckles as he makes his way back to the lounge.

"KIT!! KIT!! TACK!!" Patches yells pointing out the window. (tractor)

Kirstie walks over sitting down next to Little Bits and look to see what had him so excited.

"Dats a tactor. He... He powing da gwound." Adam nods. (that's a tractor. he's plowing the ground)

"I don't think we're in New York any more, do you?" She giggles kissing Patches on the cheek.

"Naaa." He shakes his head. "Naa tack seet." (No tractor on streets)

They stop to get gas and Jenika takes over driving. Tim would be driving on into the night after everyone else goes to sleep. So he needed a nice long nap so he wouldn't go to sleep while driving.

"Hey, Jenika?" Kirstie walks to the front of the bus. "Adam said something about a blanket? I was putting the boys to bed and when I gave Little Bits 'Dag', Adam said he needed his 'banket'." Kirstie smiles.

"Tim put a carry on bag in one of the bunks. There's a small blanket in it. That's his security blanket. He won't go to sleep without it." Jenika smiles as she watches the road. "Also, make sure he uses the bathroom before he lays down. He's been known to have accidents if he doesn't."

Kirstie smiles to herself as she heads back to the sleeping area. She thought it was so sweet how Tim and Jenika treats Adam as if he were their child. She treats Patches the same way but she also a baby of her own. Tim and Jen were unable to have children of their own, so they give all their parental love to Adam. If his brother ever took him away from them, it would crush them both.

Jenika had only been driving about thirty minutes after everyone had gone to sleep when Tim woke up. He walked quietly through the sleeping area and chuckled lightly at the snoring coming from Kevin's bunk.

"Hey gorgeous." Jenika whispered as Tim walked up beside her.

"Why didn't you wake me up to drive?" Tim ask as he looked out at the near deserted interstate.

"Because you needed your sleep if you plan on driving rest of the night." She smiled.

She pulled over in the emergency lane and got out of the seat. She wraps her arms around Tim's waist and kisses him softly.

"You be careful." She whispers, kissing him again. "If you get tired you pull over, you hear me."

"I'm fine, Baby." He reassured her. "Go get you some sleep. By the time you wake up, you'll be seeing the ocean." He smiles. "Love you." Kissing her good night.

"Love you too." She whispers before heading to bed.

Tim sits down in the driving's seat, puts on his seat belt, takes a drink from the bottle of water he had gotten, and turned on the radio to a classic country music station. 

"On the road again." He sings softly with Willie Nelson on the radio, as he pulls the RV back onto the interstate. He chuckles at how appropriate the song was.

As the night sky begin to slowly get lighter, Tim pulls the RV into a parking area. He puts it in park and shuts off the motor. He stares at the beautiful sight in front of him.

He gets up from his seat and stretches his back. He walks back to the sleeping area and begins to wake everyone up. 

"Is something wrong?" Kevin ask as he raises up.

"No, I just thought y'all might like to see the sunrise over the ocean." Tim smiles.

"We're here!" Kirstie and Jenika says in unison, jumping out of their bunks.

"We're not at the house yet but we're at the ocean." Tim says as he wakes Adam. "Hey Buddy, you ready to see the ocean?"

"Alweady?" He ask rubbing his eyes.

Kirstie finally manages to get a very sleepy Patches out of bed. "Come on, Sweetie. I've got something to show you." 

"Satchmo, come on, boy." Tim says as he opens the door. He grabs his cane as he slowly makes it down the steps. 

"You need help, Tim?" Kevin ask behind him.

"Naw, I got it. Thanks though." Tim says as he finally steps off onto the sand covered parking lot.

Adam hops down the steps and starts to giggle and clap as he sees the ocean.

Patches whines and grabs Kevin's arm. His eyes darting across the water.

"Uh, Kirstie? I think he's a little scared of it." Kevin says as he puts his arm around Patches's shoulder.

"Aww, Baby don't be scared. Isn't it beautiful with all the colors from the sunrise." Kirstie says taking him by the hand.

"It...It not gonna hut(hurt) you, Patches. It..It just wadda (water)." Adam says. "Look." He says stooping down and picking up a hand full of sand. "See da sand. We can make sand casthles out of it."

Patches slowly reaches and touches the sand that was in Adam's hand. He nervously giggles. 

"Ca.. Can I show you sumpin?" (something) Adam ask holding his hand out to Patches. 

Patches takes Adam by the hand and is lead out onto the beach. Tim puts his arm around Jenika for extra support on the soft sand, as they follow along with Kevin and Kirstie.

"Look" Adam reaches down and picks up a small shell from the white sand. "A sell. It's... It's a wittle (little) one, but we can pine (find) bigger ones." He nods.

Patches smiles as he takes the shell from Adam.

"I think he's gonna be fine." Jenika smiles as she watches Patches and Adam together.

"Hey, boys? We need to load back up so we can go find the house. And you can check out the beach there, alright?" Kevin laughs as the both run toward the RV. "I can drive now, Tim."

"Great. I could use small coffee." Tim says as they get the dogs back on the bus.

"I'm already on it." Kirstie laughs as she starts a pot of coffee, after checking on Emily.

About 25 minutes later, Kevin was pulling up in front of a beautiful blue beach house.

"Uh, Ladies? Is this it?" He as as he put the vehicle in park.

"Oh my God. It's even more beautiful that the pictures." Jenika says as she looks out the window.

"Well let's go check it out." Tim says as they all begin to get off the bus. "It looks awfully big."

"It's a four bedroom." Kirstie says as they walk toward the house.

Kirstie, Patches and Adam run up the steps and she starts to punch the code into the door lock.

Tim stops at the bottom of the steps. He sighs and takes hold of the railing. "Here's goes nothing"

"Don't worry, if you lose your balance, I'm back here to catch you." Kevin chuckles as he stays behind Tim.

"He has before." Jenika says as she takes his other hand. "He lost his balance and fell down about 5 steps one time."

"You see, I've got severe nerve damage at the stub of my leg. And the prosthetic hurts it pretty bad." Tim explains.

"Well, listen. If you ever need someone to help you, don't be embarrassed to ask. I'm a big guy. I can help." Kevin says as they make it to the top step.

"Wish you had told me that before I climbed these steps. I would have let you carried me." Tim chuckled as he wipe the sweat from his forehead.

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