Monday, June 29, 2009

Escaping the heat

We live in a hot place. But the nice thing is that we can always escape to the beach, which is significantly cooler. After finishing a very fun project Saturday (Dave & Spencer connected our computer to our HDTV so we can watch Netflix, conference, etc. on it - yay!), we went to our favorite beach, which was more than 30 degrees cooler!
Ellen and Anna came with us (Jason had work to do). Anna didn't want to get too close to the water, but she liked eating the sand and making friends with strangers.

One of the reasons we love this beach is that it is slightly inland and protected by bluffs, so it's sunny and warm while surrounding beaches are foggy and cold. You can kinda see the fog on the other side of the pier. We also found that when we go to the south side of the pier, there are fewer people and even less wind, because the rocks block it. It was a gorgeous day. Dallin got his feet wet, but that was enough for him. Spencer and Tyler spent most of the time boogie boarding - their favorite thing to do. I like the waves here because they aren't too big.
Spencer catching a wave.
There's also lots of rocks to climb on, for those not interested in swimming.

Dallin loves this picture and insisted I put it on the blog.

We're trying to convince Ellen and Jason to stay here for good. Unfortunately there isn't too much urban architecture around here. Bummer.


Spencer has wanted to do this ever since he saw it on Family Fun years ago. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

2 comments:

Mrs Abbott said...

so fun! Wish we were there!

Unknown said...

That looks like so much fun. Makes me want to go to the beach.