back from the beach

Well we're back from a week at Ocean City Nj.  The weather was great except for Tuesday and Wed.  There was storm  with a lot of wind on Mon afternoon.

We had a new canopy which was very (!!!) difficult to get down in the wind.  As the week went by we adapted the canopy supports to make it more stable in the stiff breezes at the beach.  It involved tying Mike's slippers to the ends of the cross poles which we used to hold the center of the canopy up.  many words were spoken, with much attitude, but we have survived.

Sara and Brian brought some movies along.  We watched a movie called. The Fountain'.  It is unbelievably awesome, but very hard to describe!  It's about undying love, life, devotion.  It's a beautiful film to see, that blew me away.  I wish I could to a better job of describing it.  It has a very spiritual feel, but not any specific religion.  It's a combination myth, and science story.  I'm sure that wasn't helpful.  Maybe look it up, or ask Sara?  Although she couldn't describe it really either.

We went to Wildwood one night.  Wow what a difference!  It is so much more lively/noisy/crowded.  Mike loved it, since that's were is family always went, so the noise/food etc was just full of memories.  We'll probably go there next year, as we no longer have young children to worry about.  If we stay at either end of town, the beach isn't so enormously wide.

Well back to 'real' life.  I start back to school (volunteering) on the 15th.  I can hardly wait.  If only I had a reason to buy a backpack and a new school outfit. : )