We made it through the night with no electricity (no air conditioning), but it is quite cool here on the beach, 64 when I woke up this morning. Joe said he didn't sleep too well, kept waking up without his sleep machine, so he should have brought in the extension cord and plugged it in to the invertor. If we stay here another night, he will need to do that.
He got up pretty early though, and we walked down to the beach about 7:45. There were just a few other people down the beach a ways. The water was chilly, but it was lovely. Joe thought this bucket was very beachy.
We walked the beach for an hour, gathering rocks and "stuff. Joe found a big piece of brown seaglass, and I found a little piece, and another piece that might be a pebble.
I also picked up a couple of other "stuff" -- unidentifiable.
The sand was soft and silky, but one area had interesting ripples.
By the time we left the beach, Joe had decided we really needed to spend another day here. He wanted a beach day! As we walked back through the almost-empty parking lot, we saw where all the birds rested -- Andrew would have a heyday here.
That was our first hour. The next hour we spent looking for Joe's soda. This is a very beachy town, no parking places, lots of little shops. Fountain sodas are a rarity here. We finally found a McDonalds, with no parking, so he circled the block while I ran in and got us some breakfast sandwiches and sodas. In the midst of our travels, though, we did get to see the bridge come up.
We got back to the RV, stopped by and paid for another night, did a little housekeeping, read for a bit, got on the computer. I fixed us lunch, and made some of our Jiffy Mix brownies during our 11-1 generator time, then we headed to the beach again, this time prepared to get wet. We've seen a variety of beach "buggies" here and thought our versatile little laundry cart might work, so Joe loaded it up and off we went.
When he hit the heavy sand, he turned it around and pulled it. I looked over someone else's buggy, and all we need is bigger wheels on ours.
We spent another hour or so here. The beach was a lot more crowded than it had been at 7:45 this morning.
But there's always room for more. We worked our way out in the water to about thigh-high (over a period of time), but one wave wiped me out and I pretty well got everything below the neck wet. After we got used to the water though, it was very refreshing. And the cold water didn't seem to bother the little kids at all.
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We watched a boat pulling parasailers the whole time we were on the beach, and Joe finally convinced me that we should do this, but when we got back to the RV and I called, they were booked up until tomorrow at 4:00 p.m., and we will be in Boston by then. Since it cost $89 each, it was probably just as well.
We decided we should take advantage of our "down" day (which was pretty busy) and get the laundry caught back up. We had seen at least two laundramats in our drive this morning, so that was the next item on the agenda. When we finished that, we spent another hour or so trying to find something to eat -- someplace with a parking lot, a sit-down restaurant, that had something other than seafood. We ended up with a pizza over in Salisbury, Massachusetts (just down the road another few miles). Finally, we finished our day, got the clean laundry put away, Joe re-caulked the bathtub, hooked up his extension cord to his sleep machine, and we went to bed. A nice day in New Hampshire.
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