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Walking 25 minutes to the swimming area + pulling the wagon with both girls the whole time + carrying the bag of towels & other "essentials" + playing at the beach with them for more than an hour + walking back with wagon and bag (& girls) = justification for the triple chocolate filled donut we picked up at the bakery on our way home, right?
If it's close, does the fact that it was a new local bakery & so I was supporting local business help at all?
:)
Seriously, this was the first time we'd been to this swimming area and it was awesome. When we'd signed up for the local library's summer reading program, we got a certificate to attend the swimming area for free on a particular day as a celebration of it. The original day was rained out, but today was the rescheduled one. I'd thought about going before, but "free" and "library-related" put it into the "oh, why the heck not today?" category. So we went.
Long walk; longer that I'd thought it would be because it's at the completely opposite end of the park from where we come in. Plus, with both girls in the wagon, I ended up carrying the bag of stuff, most of which... ok, I'm an over-packer... 30% of which we used.
The swimming area itself is basically a beach, with plenty of space, plus it's fenced-in, has bathrooms, changing rooms, and a concession stand, etc. and a roped-off separate diving area with quite a few more lifeguards than I'd expected. Being a beach, it was GREAT for Penguin - no worries about her tumbling onto cement or tile, plus the nice gradual slope into the water. Pumpkin found some other kids with beach toys and settled herself right in; Penguin loved walking into the water with me. Good fun was had by all.
The weather was a bit cloudy today with some threats of bad weather later in the day but it was still fairly busy. I'd guess that on a sunny day there'd hardly be room to move.
On the way there, we walked past where they're setting up for a festival this weekend; on the slightly shorter way back we strolled past the aforementioned bakery.
Yum.
I'd call it that aspect of it a wash, wouldn't you?
7 comments:
Fun! We hit the beach earlier this month too and loved it, we really have to go back. There is a DQ on the way to and from ours... ;)
Does running around in the backyard with our new sprinkler then eating a popsicle count? We have yet to brave the beach, but I've been freaked out by anything involving water with Sprout's tubes. I just don't want to hassle with the wax stuff.
I think you are GREAT to walk to the beach. You looked great so what's a few extra calories. I workout just to eat.
What fun and definitely worth a triple chocolate donut:)
Sounds like a great beach area...
Oh how I miss the beach...
And OF COURSE that's the perfect excuse for a triple filled chocolate donut!
I think it's worth 2 donuts. One for the walk there and one for the walk back, not to mention all the busy in-between stuff.
I hate that our beaches are not really swimmable here, because this sounds wonderful.
there is an amazing bakery around the corner from work, and if I weren't supposed to be cutting out sugar, I'd be eating their cupcakes FAR too often. Even so, they sell minis, so every now and then I indugle a TINY bit. Just between you and me. Shhh!
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