Here is another snapshot from our trip this past summer.
We have a friend here in Seattle that is from Boston. Every year she goes back for a weeks or so and visits family. She also rents a house in Maine and spends a few days with her kids on the beach. Their vacation overlapped a little with ours, and one day sort of towards the end of our vacation we traveled up to Maine to visit her and spend a day at the beach.
Getting to the beach isn’t something we do very often. In Seattle the weather doesn’t get warm enough for a “true” day at the beach, then again, there aren’t a lot of them around here so what few beaches we have get really crowded – and fast.
We got to the beach, rented a couple of beach umbrellas and some boogie boards then settled in for a day at the beach. We had brought up some pails and shovels.
The kids had a great time playing alternately in the water and the sand. There was a short boardwalk where we picked up some lunch. The kids didn’t eat much.
A lot of the day was spent going back and forth to the water’s edge to make sure the kids were doing alright.
We spent hours there, mostly just hanging out. The kids would out into the ocean (which was cold) up to their waist, and some would lay on the boogie boards sort of letting the surf carry them in. Some would try to ride the boogie boards like a surf board but that never actually worked. Thankfully.
Laura and I would alternate sitting under the umbrellas in the shade holding Tevye, who was just a couple of months old at the time and going to the water’s edge to keep an eye on the kids.
It was a really fun day spent at the beach with friends.
The only real downer was that somebody had taken August’s flip-flops. Thankfully on the boardwalk one of the stores sold (at significantly increased prices) various wares, such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, and of course, flip-flops. We got home and the kids went to bed and slept very well that night.