Our Camping Adventures - Part 2: The Beach

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Saturday morning we got up, and the kids immediately asked to go down to the beach. The weather was overcast and rather chilly, so I hesitated in taking them down. Finally a friend of mine and I decided that we would take our kids down to the beach and take a walk, come back to the campground for lunch, and then head back down to the beach for swimming.

When we got down to the beach, the kids immediately kicked their shoes off. They saw a little inlet area where the water is really calm and begged to get their feet wet. I consented, with the stipulation that they were not to go in beyond their ankles. This is what happened next.

It gets worse. Sam ended up falling on his backside and got his pants all wet. The poor boy was freezing, but to his credit, he didn’t complain.After playing around in the inlet for a while and checking out the tide pools, we headed back up to the campground for lunch. We hooked up with some other friends and headed back to the beach, where the weather had thankfully gotten a lot warmer.The kids split up, and it amazes me how my kids are so stereotypically boy and girl. Sam was running all over the beach. He got over his fear of the water.

Then he tried to fill up the ocean with sand. That kept him busy for a long time! Meanwhile, Liz and a friend worked on a sandcastle for the Sand Creation Contest. They called their creation “The Beach Princess Island Castle”. Do you like the seaweed palm trees? I thought that was very creative. And they won first prize. I’ve never seen Liz so excited!Stay tuned for the final episode of Our Camping Adventures: The Mis-Adventures of Sam.

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