Bear, Wolf, and Corwin on the sail boat
We took it easy today but still managed to get out to the beach. Unfortunately it’s unseasonably cold so Corwin was the only one who spent time in the water. He’s well padded so he could endure a good long time playing in the waves, then warming up in the sun, and then another extended round of swimming. Mom and Sarah went off to do some Mom-bonding on a long beach walk while I watched the kids.
The only problem we had is that Charles had managed to scrape up his knees at the Nickelodeon water park. He then waded out in the water and rubbed sand in the wounds which turned out to be fairly painful. I thought he was just have to deal with it, but a kind woman pointed out that there was a washing station. I took Charles over and he spent a good 10 minutes or so washing his wounds and was reduced to sniffle instead of pathetic wails so it was time well spent.
Bear found a crab while the kids were digging in the sand and kept it as a companion for the rest of the outing, before finally returning it to the wild (he wanted it as a pet but his Mom insisted on leaving the crab to fulfill his crabby destiny).
In the evening we, the husbands and the kids, went out for a very brief attempt at sailing on the family sailboat (which we filled to capacity with our crew). The wind wasn’t very cooperative but we did manage to sail, in a technical sense.
Alice was not a good global citizen. I was watching Corwin to make sure I could pick up the body without littering should he drown when Alice said “Look, Daddy!” and showed me that she was making the ocean level a bit higher. Oh well, we’ll be out of the state before it’s washed away.