Summer time....

And the living is....wet.

Tuesday--The Beach!

What a surprise, we got up and hit the beach again! Nick went golfing with Uncle Loring, and so Matt and I and the kids went down. We had such a great time. There weren’t really waves for boogie boarding,


but the kids spent a lot of time in the water

, and then made an art installation on the beach. We have found a bunch of sea life here, Matt pulled out the goggles and found lots of interesting stuff. It all started when Amelia made a display of all the different seaweeds.

We spent a lot of time shoveling sand against the tide, which was futile, as always.


Uncle Matt bought everyone ice cream,


and I went back to get the car. Then we went back to the house, set up badminton,

and Matt and I did some shopping, and we had another delicious dinner. The kids watched Coraline, and then off to bed! What a fun day!!

Monday-Cape Cod

Today we got up and hit the beach again. I have been running, though it is still quite muggy. It is fun to see all the cute houses, today I saw one that was not weather-beaten grey, but red!

And there is a yellow house down the road! I think they must have been allowed to pick their paint color off the Martha Stewart Cape Cod Color Palette. Everything here looks the same, and although it is quaint and distinctive, I am hesitant to call it boring. Cape Codders (Codites?) would kill me. They have a good sense of humor, Miles gets a kick out of this sign.

Sunburn report is: Nick: back, fairly major, used no sunscreen
Caroline: back, major, used sunscreen, in water a lot, no re-application
Miles: none
Elise: minor on nose, and where Nick missed on her back

After beach, we loafed around the house, and Nick and I went to the store for provisions. Caught up some laundry, did a lot of reading and played outside.