Virginia Beach - July 1 2007

I am so sunburned!!! It is great! I had been spending too much time indoors so I was almost transparent.

Jason was supposed to go to a meeting in Philly this last weekend. It was supposed to be all day Saturday and Sunday. He has been to at least 6 of these meetings already. They are always the same, boring and pointless. He decided not to go so we found ourselves with a WHOLE weekend together! That never happens so we were so excited. We decided on a whim to pack up the pups and take them to the beach.

Virginia Beach is theoretically 4 hours away...unless there is traffic. There was traffic. It took us about 6 hours to get there. Not fun, but since we never get to see eachother any way, it wasn't so bad. At least we were together. We got the a little before dark.

We got a hotel room and dropped off our stuff. Then we took the dogs to the beach for their first beach experience. They were excited at first. I had Toby's Leash and Jason had Maya's. As we got closer to the waves, Toby started getting worried. He did not like the sound of them crashing. We walked toward the water and were watching the waves roll up the beach. A rogue wave came out of no where and rolled Toby. Maya was ok cuz she is stocky, but Tubs got swept off his feet. He was not happy. Maya was not a big fan either. We walked down the beach, on the sand, away from the waves. Toby just wanted me to carry him, he was miserable. I made him walk though and eventually he looked like he was having fun dodging the waves when they washed up. We walked a long way and wore the pups out. We took them back to the room, bathed them and left them to sleep while we went to dinner. The weather was great. We ate on the boardwalk and people watched.

The next day, we went down to the beach around 9ish. We had a big umbrella incase the dogs got too hot. We were there for like 10 minutes and a cop stopped Jason and told him that dogs are not allowed on the beach or boardwalk at all. We no longer had a hotel room and came all the way down there to go to the beach. So we kept the dogs on the beach anyway. I know, we are rebels :)! There were so many people on the beach, it was amazing. I have never seen that many people on a beach. It was really windy and a little chilly so we didn't go in the water much. We just hung out in the sun and people watched. Toby loved it as long as he wasn't near the water. He lounged in the sun and slept. Maya decided to dig a very large hole. She and Jason dug for a long time. Jason would bury her toy and she would get it out. She loved the sand. She was covered in it. She dug for over and hour. Then, Jason decided to dunk her in the ocean. She was not happy. She came back and abandoned her digging venture. She crawled into a towel and went to sleep. We stayed a little longer and then decided to head back. I had to be at work at 6 in the morning so we wanted to get back at a decent hour. It only took us 4 hours to get home, traffic was much better.

We had a great time. It was beautiful and away from the city. Exactly what we needed.

This is after we got home...forgot to take the camera to the beach. As you can tell, we got a bit of sun. Maya was so tired, she decided she did not want to join in the family picture...so, all you get is her paws next to Jason's head.