We woke the kids up this past Monday morning, said eat, get dressed and we are off for a surprise. They guessed the beach early on but we didn't give in. We gave ambiguous hints the whole way there until they knew what it was. We headed to Charleston for a one nighter at the beach. We hadn't been this summer other than on the cruise so we wanted to see it! Plus, we had just a couple of days left before I head back to work so we wanted to have some family fun...and that we did!
Lots of time was spent digging holes. Terefech's were super deep!
Terefech captured a couple of hermit crabs in the tidal pool.
A beach rule: always fill in your holes. Really, it is. Lots of people get hurt every year falling into holes left by beach goers. But, before we filled in Terefech's big hole, we filled it in with her. Everyone thought that was hilarious.
One of our hints was that the kids were going to get to meet one (and then we said two, so tricky) new people on this trip. And we didn't take a picture with them! We did meet Sara and Greg at Taco Boy for dinner. Rich coached Sara when he worked at the College of Charleston and they have remained in touch. Wonderful to see her and her husband and yummy tacos.
Declan being a chicken.
Back to digging on day 2.
I was the water transporter for hole digging since it was high tide when we came so we were way back in dry sand. After lunch, the kids marveled at how far the water had moved back.
It was a wonderful 2 days at the beach. We were reminded that we will live there someday. We both had moments of just sitting and taking it in. We love it, we feel at home.
1 comment:
How fun!! Great pictures...I want to live there too!
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