Beach day

Beach vacation: On Saturday, June 23rd we headed for a beach vacation. We stopped in Chincoteague to pick up Daddy who had caught 4 yellow fin tuna and 3 dolphin on his 1st fishing trip of the year (the kids and I would have gone down earlier in the week with Daddy, but we had a family birthday party). Then we headed to the Wallops Island Visitor’s Center to look at real rocket ships. I remember seeing a real rocket at Wallops when my dad worked there when I was a kid, but the lady at the Visitor’s Center said that the Center was just about to celebrate it’s 25th anniversary, so it is too young for me to have been there while I lived on the Eastern Shore. After the Visitor’s Center we went to MomMom’s condo in Ocean City for dinner and a walk down the boardwalk toward the carnival rides and the kids had their first-ever cotton candy.

On the way into town while we were stuck waiting for the drawbridge I’d pointed out the Ferris wheel to the kids. It was all Chloe could talk about until we got there. Alex decided he didn’t want to try it, so we put him on a different ride. Unfortunately his ride had a shorter line and he was done just in time to see Chloe on the Ferris wheel. He cried and cried about going on, but we’d explained before he decided that he only had one chance to go on the ride (and I think it would have been scary for him anyway, which is why I think opted out in the first place). The kids also went on bumper boats which they got to steer themselves (that was hilarious to watch), motorcycles that did wheelies (the kids had permanent grins on that ride), and one other ride (the each chose a different one).


We took the boardwalk tram back to the condo and Alex said that was his favorite ride. We slept at the condo with no fuss, and were on the beach the following morning by 9am for a really pretty day.

By noon we were all beat and packed it in and headed home just in time for the kids to take a nice nap in the car.