We checked out of the Desert Inn across from Disneyland and headed over to a little beach town and spent the afternoon on the beach. Our kids have only been as little babies and Benji and Packer went when they were 2 and 3… so this was new and exciting and lots of fun!!!

They were really fun to watch when we first got there. The ocean and sand were foreign to them. They ran down in their clothes and were just amazed.

We taught them how to jump into the waves and how to run away from them. We explained the tide and how the waves will pull you out as another wave comes in. We brought a body board but the waves weren’t quite right.

The boys learned the art of sand seat building.

Kelsey taught the girls to make a perfect face-rest for beach sleeping.

We brought food and snacked and enjoyed the slightly overcast, warm but not too hot day.

And then we watched the dolphins!! There were several dolphins out just passed the 2nd wave. We could see them swim and their backs would surface and it was pretty awesome. We watched them for a good 10 minutes.

These two couldn’t believe how big the sandbox was and kept talking about the REAL sand 🙂

Tiago might have eaten a little sand 🙂

These kids were sand castle newbies but we taught them a few tricks.

and then we hit the water again! and Tiago attacked our Sand Castles 🙂

The kids loved sitting and letting the waves wash over us and knock them over.

I love how sandy Rayzor is in this picture.

Around 5:00 we called it quits. We drove e few minutes to our fancy Best Western 🙂 and scrubbed the sand off  and bathed and  ordered mexican food and just relaxed the evening away.

Beach Day was also a complete SUCCESS.