Dream with Our Eyes Open

On Friday night, sanada came down to visit. The whole family took her out for Japanese food followed by Ben & Jerry's best, and then the Young Lady actually went to bed (she hadn't had much sleep at her theatre camp overnight on Thursday) while us alleged adults stayed up much too late and talked about Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Then we got up early and ate breakfast (the Mr. fried up some bacon, which means I had shredded oats, soymilk, OJ, and bacon for breakfast ... ), and then sanada & I took off for The Beach! Yay! Finally!

We went to Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware (about 2.5 hrs away), and changed and got water and snacks, and went in swimming, and ate our snacks, and swam some more, and waiting a very very long time in a line to buy lunch, and napped in the sun (unwisely ... no umbrella!), and went swimming some more, because if you don't get to the beach very often, you gotta make the most of it. And of course we yak-yakked the entire time about the psychological hangups of our favorite manga characters, which is what we usually do, whether online or in person. The weather was gorgeous, hardly a cloud anywhere at any time, and not too hot (in fact, we even got chilly at one point), and we saw dolphins (or maybe porpoises ... a marine biologist I am not).

Then we packed up and showered and changed and went to Rehoboth, about 15 min. away, where we window shopped and admired craft stuff and jewelry and made rude remarks about the boutiques of overly fashionable clothing and finally had a seafood dinner followed by frozen custard.

And drove back, very sunburned on our shoulders (legs still pasty! why is that?!) but otherwise quite content.