Sylvie and I visited the Cheesequake State Park Beach today! The picture above is very deceiving, because really this beach is tiny. Teeny! I've been dying to come here and swim in the lake, but John has this thing about swimming in lake water, so I've had to wait till a time when he wasn't around. It was a beautiful day today, we got out of work early, and it was just too nice to stay indoors. So off we went!
We packed up our gazebo, beach chairs, blankets and towels, and packed a little picnic lunch. Sylvie even helped me drag everything from the car over to our spot. We ate lunch, swam for a little bit, and spent a good chunk of time mining the beach for rocks.
It was a perfect afternoon until some gray clouds rolled in. I decided to start packing everything up when we heard thunder, and then the beach immediately went from calm and serene to full time emergency mode. Seriously, the life guards were running around and someone was speaking over a loudspeaker that we had to exit the beach immediately. I had just started breaking down the gazebo and was frantically trying to fold up this huge and heavy metal frame while the life guards are yelling that the sand is the most dangerous place to be during a lightning storm. Oy! All the while Sylvie is crying because she wants to go on the playground and she doesn't understand that the park is closing and of course everytime I try to talk to her she just cries harder. Somehow, by the grace of God for sure, I managed to drag everything back to the car, with Sylvie kicking and screaming the whole way, and get us home in one piece.
What a day.
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