Remember how it was hot and humid on Saturday over Memorial Day weekend? That's the day we decided to squeeze all of our exciting activities into for the entire weekend.
During the morning, we hit up the North River Arts Festival.
As usual, we bought items at the book sale and the consignment shop over the library.
We admired the art and Cuyler went over to talk to the man who sold him a "Bruins bird" last year. It's a carved wooden goldfinch and last year the artist had a sign that read 'To Ensure a Stanley Cup victory'. Cuyler used his own $18 to buy one and he brought it to the family room to watch all of the games with us. And sure enough, when the Bruins actually WON THE STANLEY CUP (I'm not over it), Cuyler's Bruins bird was there, whooping it up with the rest of us. We thought it was sweet that he went over and told the man about it this year. He said he was going to use the story as part of his sales pitch...
We also made a quick stop by the silent auction area to check out the lampshades.
I had a vested interest--both Bubbe and I donated a lampshade. At last peek on Saturday, her lampshade was up to $75 and mine was at $40. Yay us!
Now, what was I going to blog about...oh yes, the beach.
So, we invited 4 people to come to the beach with us. Since there are 5 of us and Bobby Law's car only holds 8 people it was a good thing not everyone took us up on the offer.
Just after arrival...
The water was cold, but certain parties were not deterred.
Exhibit A: Cuyler
Exhibit B: Reilly
Yes, I did remind Cuyler to take off his shirt. No, Ebby didn't quite catch it when he threw it back at her. Which led to this, our human clothesline:
After some time by the cooking fire, the shirt was dry. Enough.
So yes, the identity of one of our guests has been revealed...
And the other? It's Nana! (and Will)
We'll expect to see you next time, Bubbe & Uncle .
I was chastised for not bringing the bag of plastic checkers so I told them to improvise. They managed.
For dinner we had chicken and hotdogs.
Remember that time Reilly tried cooking her own hotdog and she used a plastic spoon as a grill tool? Yeeeeah, that didn't go so well. So she switched to a regular fork.
You know what comes after dinner, right?
After s'mores the boys took to the sand to amuse themselves.
First with castle building...
Ooooh, random drippy castle alert.
Not ours, but I'm an admirer.
Then with a game involving a small shovel and a tennis ball...
If you're thinking 'there's no way that could've ended well', you're wrong. Well, unless you consider the two of them chasing each other with shovels full of sand 'not well'. Then you'd be right.
We didn't bring a lot of wood (or sweatshirts) so we opted to pack up before the night settled in. Until next time, Duxbury Beach...
Beach Trip Cost Running Tally:
Non-resident oversand sticker price for 2012: $295
Number of trips so far this year: 3
Price per trip: $98.34
