It was quite a production to make a trip to the beach. Step 1: find the least wet bathing suit (times four). Step 2: sunscreen application. Step 3: locate towels. Step 4: load children into the bike trailer and listen to their complaints about who was touching who. Step 5: load a wagon with beach chairs, umbrellas, buckets and shovels, and either a) one beach bag or b) boogie boards. Step 6: walk a fair distance to the beach Step 7: have two people carry the wagon down the stairs from the boardwalk to the beach. Step 8: find a prime location on the beach. Step 9: carry contents of the wagon down the beach (since it was too hard to push the wagon through the loose sand) Step 10: set up camp. The kids didn't like building castles nearly as much as in years' past. They were always ready to leave the beach before I was. We learned the first day that the sand gets HOT fast during the day, and planned our trips either mid-morning or after dinner so we wouldn't burn our feet. The ocean was very peaceful until Friday, and then there were some crazy riptides. We didn't see a lot of shells, but we saw three different kinds of crabs, some small beached jellyfish, pelicans, dolphins, and flounder and a sting ray a man caught while fishing on the beach!
We attempted to fly kites...not so much.
Thanks to Michael, the big boys got in some frisbee and football time.
On Friday night, Seth didn't want to go to the beach, but Amelia did. Lisa took this fun picture on the beach:
My sweet husband wrote this:
That's the end of the beach pics, I promise!
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