We finally made it to the beach by 1:00 pm on Saturday. My husband finished working around 8:00 am and we were on the road several hours later. I drove, he slept. Not that I got much sleep that night either. I found things that "needed" to be done. Like rearranging my jewelry box, from when our wonderfully behaved cat knocked it off my dresser. I also thought it the perfect time to put the new pulls on our ceiling fan chains, or at least try to. I wasn't successful.

All this after I told my friend I couldn't play scrabble anymore and needed to go to bed. It was a beautiful weekend. Sun shiny days. There was also a nice breeze blowing in from the ocean. The water temp. was 78 degrees. 78 feels colder than it is when you first stick your toes in. It warms up as you stand around introducing your daughter to the ocean. She liked it. She wasn't overjoyed, but she also wasn’t clinging to my neck in terror, either. We also sat her in the surf, to which she didn't object. She did enjoy playing in the sand. We foolishly sat her in the sand to play while her little bottom was still rather wet. You can imagine how covered in sand her little bottom half was. Added to that, is the cute little cover-up she had on that was also wet and then drug through the sand in the efforts of playing.

Once dried, the cover-up and her bottom-half lost some sand. But alas, my child felt the need to coat her insides with sand as she did her outside. We gave her some crackers, but some fell in the sand. So we put them in her bucket to throw out when we reached the trash can. However, while we were packing up, she found them and started munching. Apparently, the grit did not bother her. We enjoyed our walks on the board walk as well. Mack and Mango pizza, savory loop fries, would be fresh squeezed lemonade, gourmet coffee, fresh roasted peanuts, chocolate covered chocolate chip cookie dough. Not all eaten on the same visit. We also found this nifty store where all merchandise changes color in the sunlight. We made a few purchases.

But alas our time was over and we headed home. The drive is not too long, just 1 hour and 40 minutes. We listened to our book on tape that we hadn’t finished from our trip south. Unfortunately it was an abridgment of Tom Clancy’s The Teeth of the Tiger. By the end, we could tell a lot was missing. I actually went looking for more CDs. It seemed like there should have been more.