Life at the Beach

We are not quite sure why the beach has such appeal.  It’s hot, sandy, windy.  You only feel clean for a few minutes at a time.  There’s only so much you can do.

We have developed our “beach routine”.  We  get up after a full night’s sleep and Phil goes for a run.  After that a simple breakfast, a look at the WWW, and then our morning beach trip.  After setting up our umbrella and chairs for the day, we take a long walk on the beach, always starting off heading east.

After a long walk, we settle in to read and chat until about 1230, whereupon we have lunch.  After a couple of hours it’s back to the beach for another walk and more time reading and solving the world’s problems.  At about 5, we go in for supper in time to make it back for sunset, taking in our umbrella.  We start our sunset session around 7 and with no reading have taken our sunset photos and off the beach by about 8 PM.

This year we saw our friends from last year, the missionaries with 16 adopted kids from all over the world.  The YWAM folks were here near the end of our stay, and we chatted with Andreas, who we remembered was a Swede.  We met some new friends from Knoxville, TN, who exactly like us, have 5 children, a girl on each end, and three boys in the middle, only a few years younger than ours.  We met a gang of energetic and friendly young college students from LA Tech.

Every day is about the same, but somehow after two weeks, we aren’t bored, though we probably should be.  Every day is different somehow, different wind, different clouds, different sand arrangements, different sand castles on the beach, friends arriving, friends departing.

We still can’t explain our love for the beach. I guess we can’t necessarily explain very much of what we enjoy and what we do.  G^d created the beach, and G^d created us.  Maybe that explains enough.