Day at the Beach

Today we decided to head out to the beach. We drove down to Winthrop and picked up UB and headed up to Seabrook Beach somewhere in New Hampshire . . . Candace did all the navigating. My primary reason for going to the beach was to actually swim. The water temperatures are usually a bit warmer on the East Coast in the summer ~ apparently I'm completely wrong about this. Cole and Jacquelyn always make fun of me for not going in the water at the beach in California. I don't know how I was named Coral because I'm so not the go in the water kind of girl. I probably should have been named after a tree rather than an ocean dweller. But here I am ready to redeem my reputation of being a poor beach participant. I put my bathing suit on and fully plan to be in the water all day long. I thought that since they've only had a few days of sunshine here on the East Coast this summer that the beach would be full of equally non-tanned bodies . . . well I was wrong there too. I stuck out as the only one who desperately needed a tan.

The water at Seabrook beach is so cold that I felt I was actually standing in icewater! I tried to be a complete beach and ocean girl today but I was very unsuccessful. I ran straight into the water and could barely breathe out because I kept breathing in so hard. I stayed in the ocean for roughly 4 minutes just enough time to have a few waves take me down and realize that today was not going to be the day I redeem myself. My intention was to have Cole and Jacquelyn stop giving me a hard time about the beach but instead I just gave them more to laugh at. They'll never forget this one I'm afraid . . . and please don't ask Jacquelyn to imitate me running in and then out of the water, because you may hurt yourself laughing.