This was also Apple’s year to move about the Beach.  It meant that it wasn’t our old fashioned (read before kids) lounge on the beach reading, snoozing and sunning it type vacation.  Instead it was how fast can you run after your little girl on the hot sand.  Hubby did a lot of the running, I will admit.  Partly because my bathing suit was a little big and when I would run after her I would have to hold on to my trunks and the other because I do it every single day, he figured it was his turn.

On the way down, it was cool and rainy, but we stopped at a rest stop to let the kids run anyway.  Apple had to have her glasses on, she was ready for the beach.  The funniest part is that she wouldn’t wear them at the beach, just in the car.

This one day, some younger ladies (teenagers) were set up beside us and Apple just kept trying to lie on the blanket to soak up the sun.  We kept trying to move her under the umbrella, but she insisted on having her face in the Sun.

Apple and J also decided that they beach chairs were for them and them alone.  Next year we will have to invest in two more chairs.

Another self-portrait (I took a few of these this year with my Point and Shoot).  Apple and I were watching J and his Dad on the rides.  Oh how she wanted to go on them.  We didn’t put her in the little rides this year as we figured she would be climbing out before it was over.

Apparently, I was wrong… see next photo…

I am laughing so hard because she just wouldn’t let go after I took her on a ride on the carousel.  She originally had a two handed grip and was squealing through her soother at me that she wanted to stay.  Hubby finally caught this photo as I had just got her one hand free.  I think that next year she will be on all the rides, all the time.

Although we were a bit nervous that Apple would not like her time at the beach, we were very surprised at how much she actually loved it! The car ride home was not the easiest and it was partly because she wasn’t running all over the beach but, strapped in the car.  I think we have many years of fun beach times ahead.  Boogie boards and surf boards are next, I think.