Beach!

Usually my family all gets together at my parents' house every other Sunday, but since it's Memorial Day weekend, we decided to head out to my grandparents' house for one last Memorial Day. 

We could not have asked for a more perfect day. It was sunny and warm and just absolutely gorgeous. The water was chilly, but once you got used to it, it was bearable. Some of us might have gotten a bit sunburned, but not too horribly, so i'll call it a win.

The house has been sold, and they will be moving in at the end of July, so we have about 2 months to enjoy our own private beach before it goes away. 

I will really miss having that place to go. I mean, having a private beach is awesome, but i love the memories and the smells and just everything that goes along with it. We've watched the beach get huge and tiny and back again. When we were little, we'd spend a week there in the summer, watching Channel 8 Clubhouse and Captain Kangaroo in the mornings, eating Cream Of Wheat for breakfast, and then spending the rest of the day down in the water with our cousins. We'd be down there totally unsupervised - every once in a while, my grandma would come out to the edge of her yard, look down, and make sure we were all still alive. My sister commented today that that's really the last constant place we have in our lives, and that's totally true. This is the last place i can still go where i can remember spending a lot of time when i was little. So it's sad to lose that.