Vacation - Too Exciting
Some things were just too exciting today. Victoria was too excited. We went from the beach to the pool. She was so excited that she was running ahead of me. She headed straight to the slide. She was climbing up it as I was getting closer, but I still wasn't close enough to catch her. It never occurred to me that she'd actually slide down until I saw her disappear from the top. I was dropping my bag and stripping out of my clothes as I headed to the edge. I didn't manage to get my pants or my sandals off before she hit the bottom of the slide. I don't think she went under more than once before I dived in and reached her. Scared us both pretty good, I'll tell you. I couldn't help but scold her. I think that added insult to injury though. She started crying at that point and didn't stop. We bundled her in towels and I sat on one of the beach chairs with her. Didn't help. She kept crying and then started in with "I want to go home." Took her upstairs to our hotel room, stripped her down, dried her off, and put her in comfy clothes. Laid down with her in her bed. Still didn't help. She was still crying off and on, still saying she wanted to go home.
Decided to get her out of the hotel. We headed out to have a late lunch. Went to the Dough Roller which serves Uncrustables and Victoria will eat. Unfortunately they didn't serve ice cream there so we had to head out in search of ice cream. First we headed up the Coastal Highway to the Wawa so we could get newspapers and milk. Then we tried the Rita's next to one of the Dough Rollers. They only server frozen custard though. As picky as Victoria is and in such a fragile state, I didn't want to take a chance getting her something that wasn't ice cream. Instead we turned around and drove a little further to a Dumsers Drive-In. Victoria chose to have strawberry ice cream. I had a hot fudge sundae. Jeff had a triple butterscotch sundae. Very tastee as Victoria would say.
Labels: beach, vacation
