We parked the car, got our gear loaded up, put Jake & Megan in the wagon and headed down to the sand. As you get close to the sand at Montrose Beach, you have to turn off a little ramp (or go down a step). Since I had the wagon, I chose the ramp. As we were making the turn, Jake decided to help me out by leaning in the same direction, while kind of going downhill and almost flipped the whole thing over. We made it to our spot and set up the blanket. He was pretty calm at first -- just checking out the scene. Then, he noticed the water! I walked him over there and he went right in. He was pretty happy sitting down and playing at the water's edge (see photo) until he decided to taste the sand. He gagged a little bit and then I held him over the water and splashed the sand off of his face and out of his mouth.
After rinsing sand out of his mouth 2 more times, I decided we'd go back and try to play with Megan. I put a pacifier in his mouth to try to distract him, but he dropped it a couple of times and put that back in his mouth with sand on it. Ugh. Megan got annoyed with him trying to grab her bucket, so we all went back to the water. I held his hands while he walked up and down the beach for about 25 minutes. Holy backache. Megan walked with us, picked up shells and only threw sand at her brother once.
After that, I was ready to go. So, I rinsed him off, put him in a lawnchair while I packed up the rest of our gear. He only jumped out of it once. I rinsed him off again and put him right into the wagon and back to the car. The entire visit was less than two hours. Felt like the whole day :-) !
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