We had several nice days last week, where the sun was shining and it was fairly warm. It made us all itch for summer. We’ve had so much rain this month – which is much needed so we shouldn’t complain.
The plan this weekend was to get some more yard work done that we started… um.. over a month ago. Maybe longer? Well, Friday afternoon, it was sunny and warm, when suddenly over the radio came an emergency broadcast about a severe thunder and lightening storm and urged everyone inside. Well that freaked me out a bit. I’ve never heard them interrupt the radio for a storm. Not around here. But it went on for a full minute. So, we gathered the kids inside and shut off the tv’s and computers. Ten minutes later there was a loud thunder that vibrated the house. Then about 5 minutes later another smaller one. Then a smaller one… and that was it. I was completely unimpressed. *shrug* (Why the emergency broadcast??)
But, it did start raining and there was no end in sight. So much for yard work this weekend. It bummed us out. We just got a new basketball hoop for the kids to play with and they haven’t got to play with it much… and both Jack and I were itching to do *something* this weekend besides stay home and stare out at the rainy weather for yet another weekend.
So Jack came up with the idea to go to Seaside. Even in the rain there’s always fun stuff to do there. So I called and found a hotel that had a room, and an indoor pool, so as soon as I got off work Saturday, we headed out.
We didn’t get there till 10 pm, but the kids were all awake and excited so we got situated in the room. Cody didn’t like the room at first. He said it was scary. Not sure what about it was scary to a 4 year old, but, he wasn’t impressed. He kept asking why were in this ‘new house’. Once situated, we rented a Jackie Chan movie from the hotel lobby and watched it till we feel asleep.
Sunday morning we awoke to sunshine! It wasn’t exactly warm, but it was pretty out. Went to our favorite restaurant at Seaside, “Pig ‘n Pancake” and had a great breakfast then set out to have some fun. First the arcade where we won lots of tickets to trade in for prizes. Then Jack, Kevin, and I played Fascination. We walked up and down the main strip looking at stores, then it was time for lunch. We grabbed Taco Time for lunch to take back to the hotel room, so we could change into shorts for the beach.
As I said, it wasn’t exactly warm. Most people walking along the beach were in coats, hats, etc. But us? We had on swimsuits and shorts. The kids jumped into the freezing ocean and played for a good 1/2 hour and amazingly didn’t come back shivering. I stayed back with our stuff and never got wet, but I was cold. I kept asking if they were cold and they were like, ‘nah’. They built sandcastles and then it was time to go swimming in the indoor pool at the hotel. Luckily we had it to ourselves the whole time we were there. There was a hot tub too. We swam for 2 hours! After that we were all worn out.
We went back to the hotel to rest a bit, shower, pack up, etc. When we left the hotel it had started raining. Perfect timing. We were going home after dinner anyway. We went to Girdles for a fantastic meal, then headed home. We picked up Randy from Ralph and Denise and were home by 10 pm.
It turned out to be a great weekend. 
Here’s some pictures.
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