The Beach!

This past Thursday, our family headed about 3.5 hours east to Ocean City, MD to hang out at the beach.  We left on Thursday morning and returned home late Friday evening.  It was a quick trip, but we all had a really fun time!

Jon and I went to Virginia Beach last summer for a wedding, but before that, we had not been to a beach since our honeymoon. (Aruba, almost 9 years ago.)  Jon lived in California for about 10 years before we were married and said he went to the beach almost every day to surf.  Needless to say, he missed the beach and everything about it and was extremely excited to go back! 

This was the munchkins' very first time to see and experience the ocean and they loved it!  They had a healthy fear of the water and loved playing in the sand!

This is where we found Buddy pretty much the whole time we were at the beach, digging in sand!  He was entertained for a very...

long...

time!

A few black and white pictures...  

 Here's the view from our hotel room.  We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express and had a great experience there.

  Here are the munchkins with their dad on the boardwalk.  We walked along the boardwalk on Friday afternoon before heading back home.

 A kind, random stranger came along and took our family's picture.  He said he knows what it's like to go on vacation and not have a single picture of your entire family.  It was so nice of him to take this for us!

 The Bay Bridge... on our way home, we crossed it at just the right time to see the sun set.  It was so beautiful!

We had such a great time at Ocean City, I think we'll make it an annual summer trip.  The weather was just right... clear skies and temps in the high 70's to low 80's.  We made some sweet memories as a family and look forward to visiting the beach again!