Still Thinking About the Beach

I'm still thinking about how nice it would be if I could send the kids out to play on the beach when they wake up at 6:30 on a Saturday morning.
A big hit with all of the kids was the fact that they could actually fly kites on the beach without much effort at all.
The hardest part was holding on to them since the wind was so strong.
We spent a day in Charleston during the week. Since Nelson and I had both been before, we decided to do something specifically for the kids.
We had a picnic lunch in the park and then took them to The Children's Museum. If you're ever in Charleston, I highly recommend it.
There was room after room of totally accessible kid stuff. Think a room that studied motion by letting the kids throw golf balls down spirals and racing shoots; a room that taught about water by letting them race boats, paint with it and make it rain; a room that demonstrated fishing principles on a life size fishing boat complete with nets, rain boots and slickers; a room that let them experience shopping in a kid-sized grocery store where they got their own carts, picked up groceries and checked out; a castle with dress-up clothes and hiding places galore; an art room where the sky's the limit; a garden that let them dig and pump water from an old barrel pump. The only trouble we had was convincing the kids to leave one room so we could see what was in the next. They loved it.