You would think a day at the beach in California, end of July, would be about as good as it gets. But you would be wrong. While we did have fun, our plans of spending the afternoon at the beach playing in the sun and sand, swimming, building sand castles, eating dinner, then staying til dark and roasting marshmallows to make smores were cut short by the weather.
It was a cool 72 degrees, with an even colder wind. And the wind was strong, as you can see from the picture above. While all the kids played in the waves for a few minutes, only Madison and her cousin Jake could brave them for any length of time. The water was cold (until your legs went numb, then it was fine). They spent most of the time holding my hands so they didn't get sucked out to see. Collin got knocked down once when he wasn't holding on. He wasn't facing me and didn't realize the wave was pulling him right back towards me where I stopped him - Kerry said his face showed his surprise and fear.
The kids never really got into playing in the sand. Caden liked knocking down the sand castles, and he was a lot faster at it than Collin was at building them. So we called our afternoon short after about 2 hours, and went back to Kerry's sister Lisa's house for dinner and making smores in the backyard over a fire pit. This wound up working out for the better in the long run.
No comments:
Post a Comment