Life's not a beach, redux
Argh.
We were all set to go to the beach yesterday. We got out a little later than I would have liked, but we still headed out and found ourselves there at around 1pm after a 3 hour drive. We should have been able to enjoy a beautiful, sunny, warm-but-not-too-hot day at the beach. We had our beach umbrella, snacks, water bottles, folding chairs, books, etc.
We had even checked the weather to make sure it wasn't too cold or cloudy. Buuuuut we forgot to check one very vital thing: wind speed.
It was gusting at around 25 MPH. I had purchased a sand anchor thingie for the beach umbrella to keep it from being blown away, but it totally worked for about 25 minutes before it blew over because the wind was so strong.
From the time we pulled up to the time we drove away was about 1.5 hours. 45 minutes of that was setup and clean up. We had about 45 minutes on the beach with the wind whipping sand into our eyes and generally making everything miserable before we gave up and went home.
And on the way home, the freeway closed down because there was a some semi on fire about 20 cars in front of us. Billowing smoke and flames, with nobody getting by. After 20 minutes of not moving an inch, I drove up the shoulder and got off the freeway on the on ramp. :) Glad no one was cruising down that ramp at 50 MPH. We found a way around and got home safely around 7pm.
So basically, Jackson spent all day in the car with very little time to run around. Jenny said it was a bust, but it was nice to have time to talk to her, even if we didn't get the nice relaxing beach day I had wanted.
Maybe next time we'll remember to check wind speed before we leave.
We were all set to go to the beach yesterday. We got out a little later than I would have liked, but we still headed out and found ourselves there at around 1pm after a 3 hour drive. We should have been able to enjoy a beautiful, sunny, warm-but-not-too-hot day at the beach. We had our beach umbrella, snacks, water bottles, folding chairs, books, etc.
We had even checked the weather to make sure it wasn't too cold or cloudy. Buuuuut we forgot to check one very vital thing: wind speed.
It was gusting at around 25 MPH. I had purchased a sand anchor thingie for the beach umbrella to keep it from being blown away, but it totally worked for about 25 minutes before it blew over because the wind was so strong.
From the time we pulled up to the time we drove away was about 1.5 hours. 45 minutes of that was setup and clean up. We had about 45 minutes on the beach with the wind whipping sand into our eyes and generally making everything miserable before we gave up and went home.
And on the way home, the freeway closed down because there was a some semi on fire about 20 cars in front of us. Billowing smoke and flames, with nobody getting by. After 20 minutes of not moving an inch, I drove up the shoulder and got off the freeway on the on ramp. :) Glad no one was cruising down that ramp at 50 MPH. We found a way around and got home safely around 7pm.
So basically, Jackson spent all day in the car with very little time to run around. Jenny said it was a bust, but it was nice to have time to talk to her, even if we didn't get the nice relaxing beach day I had wanted.
Maybe next time we'll remember to check wind speed before we leave.