Today was a surprise day home for us all. We were planning on grocery shopping but I can do that during the week. Then we thought of going to the zoo since every time we have ever gone it's been "as hot as Hades" and it was struggling to get into the 70's but there is a ton of time left to do that. You know what there isn't a lot of time left to do though? Go to the beach. Neither child has ever been because the thought of a crowded ocean beach with 2 toddlers when by myself gives me a mild to moderate panic attack, so with one adult per person and zero chance of swimming I was happy for the experience.
To preface this I must tell you that when we leave the house and head to Rt 1 we pass a large reservoir where Nathan, and more recently, Maura, cry out "Water! Water!" and insist we all look and marvel at the pretty lake. I thought of taking a swing by the ocean a few times this summer but a car ride usually results in a sleeping 2 year old who will not take his regular nap so I have never shown him the vastness of the Atlantic. His mind was as blown as you would expect.
We tried to go to the small beach that's actually in Lynn but the tide was almost up to the wall and I wasn't sure if there would be any beach in a matter of minutes. So we drove back around and ended up at the mostly vacant Nahant Beach. I used to walk this beach all the way from one end, through Lynn and into Swampscott...it sounds like a lot but it's only 5 miles round trip and completely paved. But back to today.
We had a couple hours full of sand castles, crab claws (yuck!), waves crashing, sea gull chasing and Nathan chasing. It was the perfect introduction for these kids into what next summer will be full of.
