Thursday, July 24, 2008

A Tour of "Around Here" Part 2

Although the Mystic River is beautiful, if you want to actually put your feet in some water, Harkness State Park is located about 30 minutes from our house on Long Island Sound and offers great sand and some cool water. We've visited three times already...


On the first visit, Abby needed a little refresher course on "waves" and "sand" since it has been awhile...

She picked it up quickly and was splashing and digging in no time.


On visit 2, Grandma Goodman showed Abby some neat shells

...and how to pack the sand to built a sand castle.

Dad and Grandma helped Abby get used to the chilly water with a few warm up "jumps."

Pretty water...

(And p.s., we may have gone a little bit overboard in the "sun protection" department on this visit, but we had to protect that pasty white Portland skin. Although we're still careful, she does has a little hint of a summer tan these days.)


Visit 3 was with the Slighs...

More fun in the sand...

...testing out the chilly water...

...and going for a little wade.
Eventually, Abby was soaking wet. The rest of us watched from the warmer, drier sand.



More stops coming soon...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can never have too much sun protection, Abby!!!!

I'm loving this tour. It's so fun to see your new surroundings.

Jenny said...

Everything is so dreamy! Seriously, all you need for your house is a white picket fence and you're set! So great! I can't wait to come visit you!