Photo Story Friday & The Beach

One of the items on the "To-Do Before Summer Ends" list was: Spend a day at the beach.
So, we skipped church Sunday and headed for the coast with my brother. We stopped at Subway, and grabbed lunch and made our way to the sandy shores of Seaside. Apparently, I stayed here as a youngster with my family when we were on our way to Yakima, WA for a family reunion. I don’t remember it. I do remember stopping in Seaside briefly during a family vacation with Bryan’s family seven years ago. Oldest was just a baby, and we went to the aquarium and had lunch at the Shilo Inn.

On this day, we parked our belongings by the start of a big hole ("I was tired from digging a big hole!" - name that TV show), and the kids and my brother went to work on making it bigger. They dug the hole bigger, added a wall, some stairs, and then went to work on the moat. Leaving room for trucks to come in.

I spent some time flying kites - I love kites. At one time I counted 25 kites in the sky. It was the perfect day for it. We have a 70" span Nemo kite, and a stunt kite which is a lot of fun to fly. Youngest wanted in on the kite flying action.

After lunch, the rains came in. We laughed at the mass exodus on the beach. There were tons of people, and then it rained for 2 minutes and there was less. About 15 minutes later it started raining again and after trying to wait it out for a bit we decided we didn’t want to sit on a wet beach. So we joined the throngs and left the beach as well.

We drowned our sorrow of having our beach trip cut short by indulging in some Cookie Dough Blizzard goodness at Dairy Queen. Once we were home, and the kids were bathed, dinner was eaten and the kids were in bed we watched The 2nd Singles Ward. It was hilarious. I laughed and laughed. See? We Mormons can poke fun at ourselves.

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