The Young and the Restless

Just beachy

I picked up a summer events booklet a few months ago and ear marked all the cool things we were going to do. The movie in the park got rained out, we were out of town for the kite festival, the family fun runs,well...I don't think that was ever really on the table. But I'm so glad the sand castle building contest was in the cards for today. We had a stake BBQ (not to be confused with a steak BBQ, no everything here is a sausage sizzle) in the morning then caught the tail end of this event.  Jason dropped us off then went to find parking and as we walked onto the beach all we could see were hundreds of kids building sandcastles. Oh crap, I frantically texted Jason to tell him never mind it was just a bunch of amateurs and totally not worth the parking money. So glad we ventured a little farther down and found the sand castle mecca. We strolled around, picked our favorites, tried to be discreet as Ryder peed in the grass (#talesofpottytraining), watched Maddox use seashells in lieu of buckets to build miniature sand castles, wished we hadn't listened to the forcast for rain and brought our swimsuits, ate ice cream (and legend has it that I had almost as much ice cream on my face as Ryder), walked along the pier reminiscing about the last time we walked the pier then called it a day. Zipping to the beach for a few hours on a Saturday just never gets old.

So weird to see so many people on the beach. And all this time I thought the beaches only belonged to us...