More Life at the Beach...

Life is so much easier when you've got bookworms in the family! They both came well supplied with their books, so we really don't have to worry about entertaining the grand-daughters.

This is mainly the bird life we have seen so far at the beach -- sea gulls in all stages of maturity --





And we've sighted lots of these little coastal deer, including several does with their fawns --

Here's Claire deciding that, once again, the only thing on the menu that looks good to her is fish and chips (we keep checking her for gills, but haven't found any yet...) --

This morning we drove down towards the Spit in Ocean Shores to go horseback riding along the ocean beach. Claire has gone to Pony Camp for a couple of years, but has never ridden a big horse. When the guide went to put her on the horse, she decided it was just "too high!" They tried her on a smaller horse, but she still thought it was too high and didn't want to ride. So just Grammy and Kyra went for an hour's ride down the sand.

Grandpa and Claire went shopping while we were riding -- we badly needed to get some dehumidifier for the motor home. The humidity here is extremely high -- right at 70% in Auntie Violet! My clothes are just not getting dry at all, nor are the beach towels.

After lunch -- Claire had her fish and chips, Forry had a crab burger, Kyra had a crab and cheese sandwich and I had a delicious crab Louie salad -- the girls and I went back down to the beach for a couple of hours. We had a light mist and then even a bit of sunshine, but after their time in the ocean, the girls were ready for the hot tub.

Tonight was Ice Cream Social night at the RV Park. Kyra, Forry and I all had banana splits with three scoops of ice cream, one each of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry with all of the toppings and lots of walnuts, while Claire had a chocolate ice cream cone. After all of that, I decided I was NOT cooking supper! Kyra said she was still hungry, so she had a root beer float and Claire had a strawberry cone. I didn't even feel guilty about it, after watching all of the calories the two of them expended running on the beach and chasing the waves.

And yes, I know, I missed writing something yesterday! I had uploaded a picture of the girls on the jetty to Facebook that I had taken with my iPhone, and I guess I thought I had done my blog... When I woke up to go the the bano about three o'clock, I remembered I hadn't done it, but wasn't about come out and turn on the computer at that hour...