Some of my most favorite memories growing up were the summer vacations in San Clemente California with our CA cousins, with some of our other family joining us too. We would stay in a condo just a stones throw from the beach, (actually down some mega stairs, across the street, and under the railroad tracks). We would lay in the sand, body surf, swim, you know, all the things one does at the beach. In my mind, the parents laid on the beach reading their books, and we just did our thing. Played in the ocean, went to the little store, back to the beach for more H2O time, up to the condo to watch movies, back to the beach. Good times! Although there was the one year we watched JAWS, and I think the majority of us chose to just stay out of the water for the remainder of the time. Who thought to throw that movie into the box? Good one, Uncle Stanley!
Anyway, this past weekend we took the kids to Rockport and met up with some of Mike's family. It's no San Clemente, but it was fun. It sure took me back to the good 'ol days, but this time I was the parent with the book. :)
3 comments:
So cool. I sware to you I never had a book. I was totally into the R&R and what would we have done without uncle Stanley!!! He furnished the apartments (aunt Cindy's family had been going there ever since she was a kid) and he brought the chicken wire to put on the balconies so the little kids wouldn't fall off. No one drowned or fell off the roof or got kidnaped by aliens making it past the border patrol...you probably didn't know that was what the rail road tracks were all about...it was awesome fun. Thanks for the memories and a kids perspective. So glad to see you are getting some R&R. Hugs and love you deserve it. :)
Seriously, did we even sleep. I don't have any memory of nights, but I do remember hearing the ocean from the apts. Those really were some good times! I agree, awesome fun.
i can't wait until i can be that parent with the book (how were you able to do that with your sweet baby?)
is that beach any better than corpus christi?? we would love to find a better beach.
hope you had fun!
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