Saturday, April 01, 2006
Atlantic Beach 2006 - Day 3a
When Eliana and I woke up this morning, she was complaining that her feet hurt. More specifically, her ankles. I thought at first that she was being her usual little drama queen self but now I’m not so sure. She was holding onto the bed and trying to walk but literally screaming and crying a river of tears. The only thing I can figure is that she spent so much time (3 hours) yesterday walking and playing in the sand and surf that the muscles in her ankles are quite sore. She’s really pitiful.
It is completely overcast, windy and quite cool. Looking out over our balcony, there were some (fool)hardy souls windsurfing. She wanted to go down to the water. However, I could tell by an almost-empty beach that it wouldn’t be much fun.
We just grabbed breakfast at the hotel restaurant and returned to our room where she is watching cartoons and I’m surfing the net until Carmi comes back after lunch.
{extended}Friday, March 31, 2006
Atlantic Beach 2006 - Day 2b
Following breakfast, Eliana and I headed for the beach with bucket and shovel in hand. There was a little girl playing in the water in the general area where I planted my chair in the sand. Not two minutes later, this little girl walked over to where Eliana was digging and watched with an “I want to play but I’m shy” look on her face. She happened to glance my way and I said with a smile, “You can play with her”. That was all the encouragement she needed.
As I looked down the beach, the little girl’s dad threw up at hand at me so I went over and introduced myself. His wife was also attending the seminar and it turned out that this family is originally from Vermont but now lives in Charlotte. We really hit it off and ended up talking for almost three hours as our two daughters played in the surf. We even saw some dolphins.
By the way, if your legs are lilly-white like mine and someone is kind enough to offer their sun screen, take ‘em up on the offer. The tops of my legs are on fire.
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