Long Beach Island

Friday the boys and I met Dawn at a rest stop off the Parkway and drove down together to Long Beach Island State Park. The kids were thrilled to see each other....it's been a year! I was worried that we were going to freeze since it was only supposed to be a high of 70*. It was overcast but off the kids went into the water. The tide was going out and there seemed to be a strong undertow. There weren't any lifeguards on duty and so Dawn and I were a little stressed trying to make sure they didn't wander out too far. We broke for lunch around 1pm and headed down to the south end of the Island. We walked for a while down on the part of the beach where the trucks are allowed to go. The highlight of that walk was a found coconut. The kids all lined up to trows the coconut on the parking lot but Morgan got it open in one throw. Yes, it had been around a while.
We took the kids back to the beach to swim in the small window of sunshine we had. They spent a few hours in the water, shivering and shaking but having fun none the less. It was funny to watch them ride the boogie boards in....they would put the boards down on the sand and wait for the water to come and pick them up. They quickly learned to get some water under them first!
Di