Day at the Beach

One thing we definitely don't end up taking advantage of enough around here (especially when the weather is nice) is heading out to all the beaches available to us on our little peninsula. Some of the guys decided it would be fun to try and do a beach camping day the Arab way and roast a lamb over the fire. Steve had some of his welders at work make huge metal A-frames to support the spit. They spent all morning building the fire up and getting the lamb ready for roasting. I brought Jaydon up later and he had a great time playing in the water. At one point a piece of seaweed touched his foot and he yelped like I've never heard him and ran out of the water. He kept telling us how the "Plant scared his foot" which was a pretty cute way to explain it. He made a few sand castles, or should I say others made a few sand castles and Jaydon destroyed them. He also had fun throwing the ball for Athena a couple people in the group are taking a photography class and used Jaydon and Athena as there models for the class assignment - I thought they ended up getting some really good pictures of the two. The only downside of the day was the wind. This picture is telling and it blew that hard all day. The group planning to camp out whittled down to 1 person by the end of the night as people gave up on the cold windy adventure (we went home for bedtime).
Jaydon still talks about the day went to the beach, it's usually prompted by someone talking about a lamb which he will promptly pipe in with "Lamb goes on the fire, fire is hot, no touch, daddy cooked Jaydon hotdog on the fire". It's one complete thought for him and sums up our day at the beach.