Beach Trip!

We had our one-day summer vacation this week! We drove to Fenwick Island (the beach just north of Ocean City), which is about 3 hours from our house. We spent several hours there and then drove home. We've never done a one-day trip like that before. It was a long day, but very worth it. The kids had a blast! Heath's mom came with us too, which was really nice (and made it easier to keep the kids from floating out to sea). The boys loved the waves and were fearless playing in the water.

Tabitha, on the other hand, was terrified of the sand, the water, the waves, the seagulls, and probably a few other things. But after awhile she did get brave enough to step off the blanket and play with a bucket of water and some sand toys. And I did hold her on my lap and sit down at the edge of the surf and make her at least touch the water. You can't go all the way to the ocean and not touch it! This was her first time at the beach, (if you don't count the 15 minutes we spent on the North Carolina beach last December when it was 40 degrees).

After getting nicely sunburned (Heath missed a big spot in the middle of his back when putting on sunscreen) we went out to dinner, took a short walk on the boardwalk at Bethany Beach, and came home. It was really a lot of fun, and I'm glad we got to go--even if it was only for a day.