I managed to get a sunburn today. I was dumb. I started digging Ace a hole in the sand, as I had promised, super early in the day. It was kind of overcast and foggy so I didn't think I needed sunscreen. The forecast said scattered thunderstorms so I was kind of expecting to have to run inside half the time. The grandson of our neighbor came down to my sand hole and with a shovel and offered to help me work my hole. Yes I am being gross but it was actually awesome. He was totally into making the hole, which was a collecting pool in the wet sand, into a premiere little kid swimming pool. When we were done it was just that. An awesome pool that was big enough for two kids to swim in. Then one of Ace's friends showed up on the beach with his dad. I told him that his kid should use the pool and Ace joined him. So I was standing out there shooting the shit with him and his Uncle for like an hour. It was around then that I realized that the sun had come out hard and I'd been in it for around 2 hours. I didn't feel the burn until way later in the day but I knew it was coming. I put on some sunscreen and so on but the damage was done. I went out for a nice run of boogie boarding. The waves were crazy crazy strong and big. I caught a few that took me all the way into shore from way out. Like maybe from 150 feet out and into shore. And not gently. Like grinding the boogie board into the sand. I loved it. The waves were bunching up, too. So I would catch the first wave and as it started to weaken the second wave would catch up and crash into me and rocket me further. It was classic awesomeness. I was even able to get Ace to try boogie boarding again. He had been rocking it early in the trip but somehow had regressed to not going with the flow. Meaning that he started off just going with the waves and getting great rides and for some reason he started getting scared and trying to get off the board within 5 feet of riding the wave. But todays waves were so strong he just have to hold on and enjoy the ride. He was like a yo yo. The minute the board stopped he was up and running back to me for another wave.
Ace told a new knock knock Joke today.
Knock knock. Who's there? Mommy. Mommy who? Mommy silly like a billy.
He also renamed Jodi "Mossy Choke" for some reason. He was like "Your name isn't mommy. It's Mossy Choke." He backed off that new name pretty fast but it was pretty crazy.
In other Ace fun the other night he was up super late having dinner with the whole family and started singing something. We asked him the lyrics so we could sing too. He basically made them up again but we remembered them and started sing them. They are as so:
Darth Vader went under the bed
and found the Sand Trooper
and then they went outside
and went to the Ocean
and then went up to the planet
I just dropped my relatively new digital camera and ruined the usb port on it. The cable was in it because I was just transferring pictures from it. I forgot it was connected and moved the laptop and POW! Kind of a bummer. This is one of the last pictures I transferred in.
Pretty much the way I feel...
You can see all the pics I have posted from this trip here and here.
