Our second full day at the beach was another beautiful day! The kids frolicked in the ocean, collected shells, dug in the sand, and Alice continued to work on her boogie board skills.
Simon loved collecting tiny living clams. He wanted me to send this picture to Ellie.
I found a creative outlet for myself:
We stayed at the beach until sunset and had another dinner on the balcony watching the stars and listening to the surf.
The kids were pretty good when we were out on the beach, but inside they continued to have some behavior problems. (These sentences are from both days.)
Since the kids' school was closed Monday, I decided to plan a 3-day weekend getaway to the beach. I'd had it tentatively planned in my mind for a while, but waited until about a week before to book it that way I could be fairly certain the weather would be nice and there wouldn't be a hurricane. We ended up with absolutely gorgeous weather the entire time.
We arrived at the condo we'd rented at night, so we just scrambled to assemble the beds and get everyone off to bed. Alice was thrilled to have her own room with her own TV. I couldn't get it to work at all, but in the morning she somehow had it on the home shopping network or something because she informed me that she learned all about this lotion I could put on my face so I wouldn't look old. It could have just been a commercial, I suppose.
When we go to the beach, I insist on having the full experience and getting a place with an ocean view. It's always worth it.
As soon as we got breakfast into everyone, we headed down to the beach. It was a beautiful day, the water was warm, and the beach was not too crowded.
They all had a lot of fun playing in the sand as well.
Our condo unit is on the end, top row, right above my right ear (the side our tent is on).
"Kids, look straight into the sun so I can take your picture!"
Family portrait:
At some point, a dead fish washed up, and Alice made friends with two boys who were stationed nearby as they shared their interest in the dead fish.
They were friends the rest of the evening.
Alice greatly enjoyed making sand sculptures.
Finally, after sunset we went up and had supper in the dark on our deck. Zac has a phone setting that takes pictures at night, so it looks much brighter than it actually was. It was so fun to eat outside with the sounds of the ocean and great views of the stars.
