Our First Visitors!

Our first visitors have arriven!!!!!  Tom, Liz, Max, Xav (Xavier) and Margaux showed up on Monday for a three-day stay.  

After unpacking the car,

they began prepping the kids for playtime at the beach.  

Planned festivities included digging holes in the sand to bury a brother and/or break lifeguard vehicle axles, surfing, boogie boarding, swimming and so forth. 

After play time, the kids learned how to use the pay showers here at the park.  Dinner that evening was carne asada burritos with guacamole, cilantro, salsa, onions, cheese and other necessary items to enhance our taste buds to the “exceeded expectations” mode.  Dinner was accompanied by the very finest “Chillable Red” box wine.

Tuesday was a bevy of basics…breakfast and cleanup and then off to various stores to buy swim fins and other necessary supplies for the kids.  We also picked up two pizza’s for lunch.  The afternoon was surf and sand.  Dinner was a loin of yellowfin tuna, barbecued corn and a magnificent salad followed by “slugs” and marshmallows, roasted over the open firepit.  We also splurged by cracking a bottle of Charles Shaw White Zinfandel.  It couldn’t get much better.

Wednesday was a work day for us, so we were up at the crack of dawn (6:00 am around here) and hit the road in our electric-powered patrol vehicle.  

We hung up the flags and cited about a dozen or so scofflaws that tried to sneak into the park the previous night without paying the required fee.  They soon found out they were dealing with the “A” Team.  Tom, Liz and the kids were packing up when we returned from patrol and we soon bid them adieu.  They are picking up my sister Thursday morning and will return again on Saturday for the day.