4 Seconds A Day: July 2015

I'm catching up

Fries For Lunch, Nets For Birds

So we left the campsite for lunch. Then there was a shark!

That's as close as she'd let us get her.

We heard about some world famous fries in Ocean City. We ordered a large. We got a humongous. It was all we had for lunch. We are on vacation. 

Yuula was all about the boardwalk.

They have some lovely beaches and pretty nice playgrounds right out on the sands.

Then it was back onto the boards to run into unsuspecting elderly folks.

We stopped at a souvenir gift shop but all Yuula wanted was this net.

She said she wanted to catch birds.

Who am I to say no?

Foggy Seaside Baby

Perfect weather for a walk along the boardwalk today. In a matter of weeks this place is gonna be filled with the highest quality of guido, so to be here on a cloudy, blustery day is the best opportunity to only be mildly offended, skeeved and downright assaulted by the coming flood of obscenity.





So we had a nice walk on the boardwalk. Most of the piers were shut down still and under construction, prepping for the summer. A few shops were open, selling monstrous slices of pizza, profane t-shirts and boogie boards. We wanted to get Yuula a shirt emblazoned with "NJ: Where the weak are killed and eaten" but we couldn't fit it on a onesie. Next time.




The fog made for some creepy looking ferris wheels and roller coasters that you couldn't pay me to get on.





And next to no ocean visibility. Didn't stop us from dragging the girl across the sand to meet her first tidal wave.

Photos with mom:






Photos with dad:







We chased some seagulls...



Balancing the camera on a fragile combination of baseball hat and sunglasses we managed to get a family photo. The ocean is implied.



We made it down to the giant boy statue and showed Yuula where she can get the waffles and ice cream, a place we will frequent quite often upon our return to the boardwalk. Tradition.





She had seen enough so Yuula slept on the walk back.

Biking The Boardwalk

"What a beautiful day for a bike ride!" were the first words out of my mouth this morning. I rustled Francis so we could get an early start and after a brief wrestling match while attaching a bike rack to the back of our car, we were off for the boardwalk.

Our starting point was Avon By The Sea, and from there we headed north, all the way past Bradley Beach, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, Loch Arbour, Allenhurst, and into Deal. We toured sideroads with some amazing looking houses, even if we didn't feel entirely welcome, and stopped outside the Asbury Convention Hall for sandwiches. We headed back to Avon but didn't feel like stopping, so we went south. Thru Belmar, Lake Como and into Spring Lake Heights. Now we were starting to feel it. By the time we got back to the car again we had rode about 16 miles. Not bad for a beautiful day.






What does Fran have to say about today's adventure?...

"My butt hurts"

Also, since we both got extreme sunburns and needed mass quantities of aloe she adds...

"I'm having an aloe-body experience"

That's a bit of a stretch hun, but I'll give it to you.