On Wednesday the 22 of May school let out for the year and we all set our sites on California! We love the beach and had a week planed of just lounging on the beach and being together as a family. We're not sure how we got such great kids, you know, ones who don't mind hanging out with Mom and Dad, but we did. And we did just that "hung out".
We collected sea shells, played in tide pools, had a great visit with Jared and Amanda who just happened to be there on job related business. We had 2 wonderful visits and dinners with Great Grandma Dowlin. As she was leaving out place Friday evening, she wanted to get on the road before it got too dark, you see her eyes don't work as well in the dark... Dean asked her if she wouldn't mind recording a Public Safety Message for the state of Arizona! (HA HA - she thought that was funny)
Our Family with Great Grandma Dowlin
We swam in the ocean and the pool. We built a great sand castle village (Grandpa Wilson would be proud - I learned everything I know about building sand castles from him)
Preparing to build the ultimate sand castle -
On the Pier
We walked around Oceanside, along the beach, and out to the very end of the pier. It was lots of fun! Too many fishermen if you ask me. But we had fun "people watching" and the lifeguards were out on their daily training mission so we got to see them climb up then jump off the pier.
I'm not going to go into detail about the multiple members of our party who were so sunburned and blistered that the state didn't have enough Aleve, Aloe gel, or Solarcaine to kill the pain! Let's just say, after nearly 40 years of burning...you would think I'd be more into "prevention" instead of "treatment" - aparentally I really am as dumb as I look,. (LOL) I have to edit that - actually, not mentioning any names, but I came in 3rd behind the guys who's names start with "D"
Preparing to build the ultimate sand castle - 
