Summer Vacation Part III

THE BEACH

1. Never go to the beach before noon.


2. Always have a back up parking plan.
   
3. Bring lots of wet wash clothes / water bottles.


4. NEVER bring home a live clam!!

After spending the entire vacation being asked by Chloe "when are we going to the ocean" , it was finally time! I was very fortunate to sleep in this morning. The children woke up early like usual but great grandma came and got them from the room and allowed me to sleep in an extra 30 minutes before Sophie came in and woke me up! Another great breakfast and we were preparing for the beach. Chloe was super excited!! All she could talk about was seeing Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian because they live in the ocean! I didn't have the heart to tell her they wouldnt be there.

We spent most of our time playing in the sand making sand castles for Ariel to live in, searching for sand crabs... because Sebastian is a sand crab didn't you know that! Chloe and I walked the beach in search of the perfect seashell but had little luck. So we kicked around in the water for a little bit. I was up to my knees and chloe was waist deep. She LOVED it, I on the other hand was freezing... My legs were NUMB!!!! Sophie was terified of the water. Everytime a wave came to shore she would run for dry land! As I sat in the wet sand playing with the children Bobby had the easy job of taking pictures... Apparently we should have switched jobs!!! After about 3 min he declared the camera was "dead". Good thing I brough 2 extra sets of batteries with us!! But they were dead too??? They were litteraly BRAND NEW! I had just purchased them the day before. I was very upset that we werent going to be able to capture Sophies first beach trip, or Chloes 3rd!! I will survive afterall the mental pictures can't be deleted!

It was about 1:30 when the girls decided that they were hungry enough to leave the water for just one minute (according to chloe). So we walked back to the van to add time to our meter and we decided that we should clean up all the sand before we headed down the beach for lunch. So Like stated aboue you deffinitly need water and washclothes to get the sand out of there diaper area! Luckily we had the water and we had to use baby wipes so we were okay. After we were cleaned up we walked over to our favorite little pizza place called Ray's. So yummy! After we ate we went to take the girls back to my grandmas so Bobby and I could go back to the beach and have some fun time of our own!

We got to grandmas and both girls were past out! Sun + Fun = NAPS! So Bobby laid the girls in bed and my grandma had the table set for us for lunch! We were already soooo full. I didn't have the heart to tell her that we had already eaten so Bobby and I forced our selves to eat a little bit! After we were done and the kitchen was cleaned I sat on the couch next to Bobby and with one glance we were both thinking the same thing. The beach will have to wait. We would have to go back next summer. We were just too tired and way to full!! So we lounged around and watched movies until the girls woke up. They were sad that we weren't going back to the beach. So instead we filled the pool with water and let them play outside. I went with Grandma to get stuff to make ice cream sundays!

We were sooo exhausted by the long day, and all the sun that I was just useless. I fell asleep on the couch and Bobby and my grandma chased after my children. Finally Bobby woke me up and took me to bed. We had to wake up at 5:30am the next morning.

The alarm went off, I hit the snuzz buttom. They alarm went off again at a quarter til. I jumped out of bed, woke up Bobby and the girls. We quietly finished packing and getting ready so that we wouldn't wake anyone in the house. We walked quietly out of the room and everyone was awake and waiting for us at the kitchen table with breakfast. So yummy!

Then it was time for goodbyes. I HATE goodbyes. Everyone crys. We never have enough time there. I wish that I could just stay with her in California forever!!

Love <3