We had a safe and fairly sane holiday weekend. It was mostly devoid of sun, but of course it usually is here in the beautiful but gray and wet Pacific Northwest.
The girls and I came to the beach Thursday afternoon. Traffic was fine, and the drive was okay except for the fact it was raining and rain + car = tired Megan. But we arrived without incident, got settled then I took the girls our for dinner, and luckily their tastes still border on the simple, so they did not break the bank. That night we had a mini 80's film fest with The Outsiders and Pretty In Pink, which I thought the girls would like since they had gotten into 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, and The Heathers (girls after my own heart) They preferred the latter to the former and I'd forgotten how cute those boys were and how I was so in love with every one of them, especially C. Thomas Howell, Rob Lowe, and Emilio Estevez.
Friday night my sister and her kids came and we just chilled while watching Lords of Dogtown. Which of course is the only way to watch Lords of Dogtown, if you're not chill, forget it. Great movie btw, and I love Emil Hirsch and of course the late Heath Ledger.
Shopped around and laid in the sun all day Saturday. Got the kids some pizza and my sister, her mother in law and I hit the casino. Starship was playing (suddenly belts out *Jane, Jane, Jane!*). We lasted about five songs as the wind was kicking and a glass of wine and Lobstermania slots were calling my name. I dropped a $20 and it was good.
Today me and the girls and whoever else wants to join us will take some garbage bags to the beach and help clean up. Because sad as it is, people leave their trash for the tide. Dead fireworks, bottles, cans, food wrappers. We did the same thing last year. It's a good lesson for the kids and we're doing our part, if only a little.Hope you all had a great holiday. I know I did.
Ciao,
Megan
Sounds sublime -- even with rain and garbage. Thank god you guys are in for helping to clean the beach. The world thanks you.
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It was fun. It's sad how much garbage is left behind. Shame on humans.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good time, Megan! It is indeed sad that there was so much garbage to pick up.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you all still have your arms and I'm glad you had a good time!
ReplyDeleteTrash: I always leave a campsite better than I find it by picking up others trash, too.
ReplyDeleteDecades ago I lived in an apartment complex that had a parking shortage due to trash piling up. I canned and bagged all the trash. A neighbor asked me why I was picking up all his trash. I said I needed a place to park.
Evenually they all got into the habit of picking up after themselves, but I had to leave that neighborhood and all those fools. The apartments got bulldozed.
Now I live on a hill above it all. yay.
Megan-it sounds like a great weekend! I'm glad you got some bonding time with the girls, and some bigger family time.
ReplyDelete-and the heading out the the beach with garbage bags is one of the things I miss most about the PNW--in other places, nobody takes the environment quite seriously enough to pick up other peoples' trash, but we use to ALWAYS take a bag to the beach in Oregon, so if there was litter, we could pick it up--you know what--there rarely was, because we weren't the only ones who did that.
The whole garbage thing didn't work out. Right when we got to the beach we got stuck and it took four guys a tow rope and about 30 minutes to get us out. So rather than risk getting stuck again, we opted out of our garbage clean up.
ReplyDeleteMaybe next year.