About Sprout: Catch Up Post: Beach trip

In May, we took a long weekend trip to the Georgia coast. Aaron and I were feeling remiss for not getting Zeke to the beach more often, especially after he enjoyed his last trip so much. We rented a cottage a few blocks from one of favorite beach hangouts in the Savannah area and looked forward to a weekend of playing in the sand and water and good eats.

The best laid plans of mice and men, though....The weather was unseasonably cool and rainy and felt much more like fall than the start of summer. Our last day of the trip, the temperature dropped into the upper 60's. To top it off, the day we got there we went for dinner to our favorite restaurant only to find it wasn't open yet for the season and perhaps even closed permanently. Still, we took Zeke for a walk on the beach and he seemed very hesitant about the water. He also looked a little worried as he talked about how "big" the water was. But, I showed him he could write in the sand and he loved that. He loved that so much that the next day, the only day suitable for getting in bathing suits, he would only play and write in the sand. The only other activity he was interested in was taking pictures with his camera.

Despite all of this, we had a really nice time. I brought lots of games and books with us so we had plenty to do even when inside, and we also made a trip to an indoor play area at an area mall which Zeke thought was really fun, probably more fun than going out to the beach. Also memorable from the trip was that he really adopted our rental cottage as a second home and talking about it as "our other house." This is a theme that extended throughout the summer as he also called a hotel in Charlotte and the house we rented in Turks and Caicos our other houses. What we lacked in good weather and timing this summer, we apparently made up for in good real estate!