vacation Monday: surfing and beach

Today there weren't plans to go anywhere.  Ben and Isaac had a surf lesson, but the location they selected was the pier so they could just walk 100ft and be in the right place.  I told Ben and Isaac that I supported them and I hoped they would have a lot of fun, but I wasn't going to watch - I was going to play in the ocean.  However, we did go over to their side of the pier for 20 minutes to watch while playing in the ocean and they did a great job.  Also, happily, we have other people in the group that were willing to take pictures so we got some great ones.

The boogie boards were in high demand, so I just jumped in the waves a bit and then pretended to read my book.  I only read about three pages; friends and kids are distracting, the ocean is distracting, being wet is distracting.  I brought it down a few more times, but never opened it up again.  (Please note the beach book is different from the one I was reading on my kindle.  Phones and beaches don't mix all that well.)

We spent the afternoon inside.  The girls went swimming again, and they all ended up with very sad sunburns...they had been well sun-screened up in the afternoon too!  (Actually, Joshua was burnt too, but that was more due to poor application of sunscreen.)  It reinforced my plan of not going out in the afternoon and putting on more sunscreen in the morning.

During the afternoon we played several games, read some books, and just hung out.

For dinner we pivoted our plans.  We picked up some Buffalo Wild Wings and then went back to the beach.  The beach in the evening was perfect.  All four of us played in the ocean for quite a while.