Beach Week 2023

It was a very different beach trip this year. Instead of our usual Sunday to Sunday, the rental was Friday to Friday, which meant less traffic, a full beach weekend and some forced time off of work for travel. We were later in the season which resulted in celebrating Owen's 17th birthday two days into the trip (complete with a birthday banner but sadly, he left his rock & roll pajama top at home). Katherine, Lee and John skipped out (though Lee did pop in for an afternoon) so there was more seafood and fewer mandated activities (though we still got in a lot of marbles, walks on the beach, bocce, and sunrises). And because we had so much extra space, we invited Owen's friend Adam to join us.

We managed to fill our week well. The boys got in a golf trip (Don won but Owen dominated the back nine). Allen taught Adam how to skim board (though Adam did sacrifice his glasses to the ocean gods to do so and it took a few days for FedEx to get his spare pair there). Noa and Mom Mom made chocolate mousse. There was a Duck Donuts run and weirdly a Lego run. We played bridge and drank cocktails (which might explain why we lost the ace of diamonds). We watched the premier of Ahsoka. While the early days involved a lot of seaweed jellyfish and the later days were too windy for floating and boogie boarding, the middle days were quite lovely. And then we capped it off the week with a college tour of William & Mary (which just happened to coincide with freshman orientation) on our way home.

So while it wasn't the beach trip we had planned, it was the beach trip we needed this year as we prepare to start Owen's senior year and Noa's first year of high school.

(To see all of this week's pictures, click here.)