Beach Day ... Yay!

Sabrina and the little kiddos are here visiting until next Wednesday. When we were trying to decide about the fun stuff we were going to try to do during their visit, we designated today as BEACH DAY. We could not have picked a more perfect weather day to spend the day at our favorite spot on planet Earth!

After we took Jackson over to Afendoulis to be fitted for his tuxedo for Dylan and Kelly's wedding, we drove on out to North Park Beach in Ferrysburg ... this beach is two miles north of the lighthouse and it's usually less crowded than the State Park at Grand Haven. We brought a bunch of sand toys, staked out a spot near the water, and had the best fun ever.

The water temperature was 76-77 degrees today ... warm enough to really have a good time (I HATE cold water!). So we got to swim and dive and play in the water as much as we liked!
We had very friendly sea gulls everywhere around us, begging for food. We didn't have any to give them! We had already eaten all of our rice crispy treats!

We made lots of cool sand mold castles and even dug our own river to the sea ...
Do you like this picture of our "muscle man Jackson?" Yikes! Look at the ribs on this child!
We drove over to Grand Haven and ate lunch at the Snug Harbor on the deck outside. This was our beautiful view. We got to watch all kinds of interesting boats coming and going while we waited for our food. Does it get any better than this??!!
We took a wonderful walk all the way to the very end of the pier ... with about 10,000 other people who were crowding the beach along with us!

We got to see the Wind Dancer hoist its sails and ... sail! Grandpa Jones and I sailed aboard this ship last summer ... it was wonderfully thrilling!
We were too late to catch the fishermen today ... they must have been smart enough to come to the pier in the wee hours of the morning to do their fishing ... when it was nice and quiet and there weren't so many beach goers around.
Here are Jackson and Karis showing us their "dance moves" ...
And Karis kept up an entire song and dance routine, completely uninhibited and totally entertaining ...
After she was finished, she did a very fancy BOW ... like she was a true performer!
Can you see how amazingly beautiful our day was? Mmmm. I could've stayed forever.
What a great day to spend at the beach. I will have lovely memories of it ... for always.