Beach Day 3 Details
Today was a let Mom sleep in day. I got paged at 1am and ended up unable to fall asleep afterwards. Victoria tried to wake me up. At least I'm pretty sure I remember a little hand patting me on the cheek and a little face next to me on the bed. I think I sent her off to find her Dad though. I don't really remember.
We breakfasted in the room so that we could get out to the beach at a reasonable time. We'd no sooner gotten ourselves settled on the beach when the Good Humor truck pulled round. Jeff went off to get something for us. He came back with snow cones. Yum! I haven't had one in ages. Was really good. Victoria enjoyed it immensly of course.
Then it was time to get down to serious work. We had to build up our mounds. Victoria chose the spots for them. And, Daddy and I started digging. I got a pretty decent mound dug up in a fair amount of time with that little hand digger. I should have stronger hands by the time we're done. :) When I patted it down, I decided to embed a couple of the eggs around the top as decorations. Well, Victoria took that idea and ran it into the ground. She spent quite a while decorating the mound. She used just about all the sand toys in decorating the mound. Not quite what I'd pictured us doing, but she had fun. It was Christmas time to her and we were decorating. Then Christmas would be over, all the decorations would come down, and she'd huddle on the beach towel with me until Christmas came again (and the decorations could go back up). I'm fairly certain that went on for an hour or so. My mound looked a little worse for wear by the time she finally gave it up.
Then she started playing with the bucket. It was a little big, but she still put it on her head. Can you guess what she was called? Yes, a bucket-head.
Somewhere in there, we actually had lunch. Well, Victoria had lunch before Mommy and Daddy. Jeff made here a jelly sandwich. Which she ate, surprise.. surprise. She had some of the peanut butter crackers. She actually drank most of a juice box for me. Another surprise. Then she helped herself to the chips that Daddy brought back with our sandwich. Jeff got us an Italian hoagie at Subway that we split.
Dad wasn't allowed to use the castle parts to finish off his castle. They were being used to decorate the mound for Christmas. So, instead, he used the big bucket. Took a lot of work to fill that bucket and compact it. But, boy, did it create some cool towers around the castle.
Victoria took to chasing sea gulls today. They were being rather annoying with our food and I shushed the away. I told Victoria she was allowed to chase them off. That's all it took for her. She was off and running. Let her run a little further away from us too. Made me a little nervous when she was going in the direction of the surf. But, I know she won't get close enough to even dip a toe in this time because it's so rough.
Then Thomas and James made an appearance as cars and not as decorations. Finally my roadway was going to be used. For a short time. That is until Victoria decided that the bucket towers were much more interesting. James and Thomas got to perch on them briefly. Then, out came the rake and the towers got raked down to the ground. Once the towers came down, it was only a matter of time before the castle came down. Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. Here comes monster castle-wrecking Victoria.
We came in from the beach and got Victoria a shower. Then we turned on the TV and let her watch what was on Nickelodeon, I think. With everyone showered and changed, we headed down the street to Phillips for the seafood buffet. Jeff and I enjoyed it. I know I got my money's worth on the crab legs I ate. They were done just right. This was a picky night for Victoria though. We just couldn't find anything at the buffet that she was willing to eat. Jeff brought her spaghetti without sauce, an ear of corn, and a roll. I brought her fish sticks and french fries. Jeff even found watermelon. I found some grated cheese. It was a rather frustrating night. I probably shouldn't have, but I brought her dessert anyway. She got cookies and ice cream with chocolate sauce. She ate the cookie and mostly the chocolate sauce. I must admit, the cookies were very good.
Stuffed, we headed out to walk the boardwalk. I don't remember exactly, but I don't think we got too far. I think we made it to the Commander Hotel and then called it a night and headed back for bedtime.
Labels: OC2008, summer, vacation
