We were able to squeeze in one more great beach day (our best!) and a couple of day trips to the islands before we got hit (almost directly) by Tropical Storm Elsa. Massachusetts shouldn't be getting tropical systems in July! (Although I know we do, and have!) On the nicest day of the week, I stayed back at the house to work while I waited for Grant's peanut medication to arrive. FedEx said it would be there by noon, but it wasn't.
Grant thought the seaweed growing on the shells was funny, and wanted to throw them at his sister.
Natalie, being VERY Irish, had to sit under the umbrella for a time.
The kids and Todd also made a fortress!
We need to discuss the floodplain management regulations about this one.
Grant and Natalie were very proud of their fortress!
I worked a half a day, but finally was able to join the kids and Todd at the beach. Thankfully, we signed up for text messages from FedEx who would text us when the medication arrived.
It was warm and considerably more crowded on this day.
"Mommy! Take a picture of us as the waves hit us!"
Grant was getting a little bit of reading in (a fiction book about a boy escaping from North Korea) after playing most of the day in the water.
It was hot today, so I even got in the water! And I never do that! It actually wasn't too bad. Am I becoming a northerner?
Todd went back to get the medication and to wait for Kathleen to arrive while Grant tackled this National Geographic about the Titanic.
KK paid us a visit on the beach! She lives nearby so this wasn't too difficult for her.
After a fun day at the beach, we went back to the place we are renting and grilled out with KK. This squirrel was eating one of the mushrooms in the yard - I hope this wasn't a magic mushroom!
We had a lovely sunset while enjoying a yummy dinner with Kathleen.
And THEN... it was time for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Bolts were back in Tampa hoping to win the Cup at home. AND THEY DID!
So for the third time in 9 months, Tampa has won a championship. The Bolts won last September, the Bucs won the Super Bowl in February and now, back on a slightly more normal schedule and in front of the fans, the Bolts won the Stanley Cup again! Champa Bay, baby!
On Friday, we got an unwanted visitor - Tropical Storm Elsa. It didn't really do much except blow the plastic chairs around the lawn.
Todd and the kids went down to the beach to get their hair blown around a bit. I was working all day!
Some of the gusts got up to maybe 45-50 mph which blew Natalie around a bit. We were in the windiest part of the storm, but not really the rainiest. The rainiest area was actually over our home, where we got 3+ inches of rain!
Elsa definitely kicked up some good waves though!
Rough seas and spray at Craigville Beach!
Naturally, this tradition had to be continued. Since Tropical Storm Elsa grazed Tampa Bay as a category 1 hurricane, Cory got to do the liquor pose, and so did Todd for Elsa's second landfall!
Late in the day, we lost power so we went down to the Cape Cod Mall, which had an Eversource staging area in the parking lot.
We went to Ryan's so the kids could play games before seeing Black Widow and getting some dinner at Not Your Average Joe's.
And of course, because there was a tropical storm outside, it was packed. Eww.
The kids did a virtual roller coaster ride - which reminded me of the time they did this at Europa Park!
I will legit be surprised if someone doesn't get a breakthrough delta variant case here.
Saturday was our last day at the beach, and the lady we rented our AirBnB from said we did not have to be out by 11 and gave us a few more hours to enjoy our vacation - so naturally, we went to the beach.
It was a cool, breezy day, and while we weren't the only people on the beach, there were not a lot of people there!
The clouds looked ominous but it all stayed out to sea.
Natalie and Grant swam anyway!
Panorama of Craigville Beach.
Grant was having a blast, dancing by himself and trying to work on perfecting the sandcastle bucket sand dump!
Finally, we had to say goodbye to our fun week at the beach. Peace out! Because we got a few extra hours, we hardly had any traffic on the way back!
But when we got home, the excessive amount of rain we had gotten was very obvious in our yard as we had a field of mushrooms growing. This one was as big as my hand!!!!
Until next time, Cape Cod!
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