We just got home from a great trip to Oak Island, NC. We went with the Sextons (to David's parents' beach house) and stayed just shy of a week. The first day we hit the beach, the kids were fully engrossed in their sandy new environment. They are usually always starving ("Can I have a snack? Is it lunch time yet? I'm just so huuuungry!"), but with the whole new coastal wonderland to explore they didn't even ask for lunch until 1:30 or so. Emma and Ben went straight for the ocean, laughing and splashing and jumping over and into the waves. Josh was not interested in getting wet at first, but after some gentle persuasion he gave it a try and ended up loving it as much as the big kids. They dug for clams a lot, played some soccer, and buried each other and their cousins. Emma loved boogie boarding as well. The last day she spent hours catching tiny little fish with a net and collecting them in a bucket filled with water. Ben spent a lot of time in the huge sand pits that were dug each day. Some of the older cousins (Trey, Allie and Trey's friend Tyler) would bring down regular, big shovels and dig huge holes 3-5 feet deep for everyone to play around in. Josh bounced from one activity to the next for awhile before getting settled on one thing, like filling a bucket and dumping it out over and over. Lydia did great in the sand. She didn't mind crawling around in it and got a few handfuls in her mouth in the meantime. She took a nap or two on the beach most days and got passed around to aunts and uncles plenty.
I think the beach is the best place for kids. The grownups quite liked it too.
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