Beach trip - 2.0

Two years ago we all met at the beach on 30A and it was proclaimed "the best vacation ever". 

It had a lot to do with great time spent with cousins and the freedom to ride bikes to the town square for snow-cones! So we chose to do it again - a quick trip to get that same feeling of good family love, salt water air and the Seaside food trucks.

We did everything we wanted to do - and didn't let an approaching tropical storm dampen our spirits! 

(just our swimsuits... in the road!)

It only rained a little - providing much needed opportunity to apply sunscreen and visit on the porch.

So we spent most of our time on the beach, of course.

We were there in the morning to build sand castles... and there in the evening to watch the sunset and play volleyball... and there any time in between to ride the waves!

Fireworks

We got lucky this 4th of July!

We caught a Rockies game Saturday night, July 3rd and cheered the team to victory over the St. Louis Cardinals (thanks to Trevor Story's 3-run home run in the 7th inning!) I didn't think much about where our seats were... until immediately after the last strike as the ushers began marking off the field... and our section! 

So we watched one of the most epic fireworks displays I've ever seen, lying on the grass in Coors Field!

The next morning we flew out of Denver to get to the beach. We met the Hightower family on 30A - our favorite! - and our luck continued with good travel karma and more fireworks. For 2 nights we watched the sun set from the beach and the sky light up with beautiful displays. We could see fireworks all up and down the shore - I felt so grateful just to be there!