Wednesday, October 28, 2015

MINI VACATION GUIDE: OCEAN CITY

Dear Olive,

At the end of the summer, we planned a five day trip to Ocean City Maryland.  In our own childhoods, we both frequented North Carolina, but the 15 hour trip felt too daunting for a first try with our littles.  Ocean City was our closest ocean, so we went for it.

Ella's first reaction to seeing the beach was pure rapture.



So we participated in all things Ocean:

Sand castles....


Mermaids...


Crabs...


At night, after the kids went down, Jason stayed in to catch up on some sports scores and I walked the beach and meditated.  


PLAY

About halfway through our trip, the kids discovered an amusement park that they became obsessed with.  So we made a trip across the way.


Sibling battles were put on pause for a roller coaster ride


And a shared lemonade.


The last day there, we hit up the boardwalk at the end of the strip.


The candy stores there made for dangerous parenting stimulus.


But the tourist art was hilarious.


We are already talking about going back.  

STAY


In case you are interested, here is where we stayed.  It was a brand new ocean-front condo with two bedrooms, two balconies, and two baths.  


At night, the restaurant next door had live music and we constructed our own cocktail hour.  

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