Love and Hate

I pretty much spent the whole day trying to get Ben off the beach, and trying to get Rebecca on the beach. Sitting on a towel and playing with a bucket of water didn't go so far today as it did yesterday, so Becca spent much of her time at the beach whimpering and whining. I even put up the beach tent, but she wanted nothing to do with it.

Ben wanted nothing to do with the beach tent either, but that was because he was having too much fun running around in the surf. As if having his cousin Charlie to play with wasn't enough fun, by one of those it's-a-small-world-isn't-it coincidences Ben's friend Maya and her family were vacationing at Ocean Isle this weekend also. So Ben had plenty of surf-side companionship.

After dinner tonight we took a walk to the ice cream parlor down the street, and after she realized we weren't taking her back to the beach, she was very happy. (Before she realized it she was crying "No- no wah-duh! No-no wah-duh!")

I am going to steal some pictures from Abby's camera in a little bit and post a slide show. Her camera is much better than mine!