Ocean City and Lancaster

The east coast beach was on our "to do" list while living out here, so a few weekends ago, we drove to Ocean City, New Jersey to experience it. We knew we could run into traffic so we got up and left by 8:30 hoping to miss it. Unfortunetely our trip still took a half hour longer than we had expected. After 10 weeks, we are still not used to the traffic here. As well as the tolls! It seems like nothing is free these days! Then we had to pay to park AND pay to walk onto the beach! It was probably the hottest weekend this summer and so we were grateful the water was so cold. The kids had a blast as you can see in the pictures.

Making little footprints in the sand...

We only stayed for a little over an hour because we were worried about traffic coming back. It wasn't bad, but we were really glad we had left early because the traffic going the other way was horrible! After paying to get onto the beach, I expected it would be really nice with bathroom facilities, showers and firepits, but didn't find any of that. I have to say, California beaches definitely win. But, it was worth the trip. Jackson has been asking to go back since we left!

Another weekend, we drove to Lancaster and found the Amish country. We wish we could have stayed there longer. It was a fun place with some great food. Somehow, the only pictures we took were of the laundry hung out to dry.