Autumn Walk on the Beach

I love the beach in the summer, but I have learned that it is a nice place to visit in the fall too!  The beach was almost empty this weekend, even though it was sunny and hot out.  

It was great to be able to take the time to enjoy the birds and the rest of the scenery.  I took a super long walk, and it was fabulous!

A Horseshoe Crab

It was warm enough to dip my toes into the water.

The seagulls were enjoying the quiet beach too.

Breakfast and Bicycles Part II

You may remember that a while ago I went to visit my brother in Manayunk, Pennsylvania.  In my blog post I spoke about all of the people who rode their bicycles to breakfast.  Well, I was so inspired by those cyclists that I thought I would bike to breakfast today in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey.

I rode my bike and had a delicious breakfast on the rooftop of a building.  I had a great view of all of the surfers in the ocean.  Afterwards, my belly was so full.  It gave me plenty of energy to keep riding my bicycle to check out the sights.  Check out the pictures below to see what I saw today!

 

Here I am in Wildwood Crest.

I saw a dolphin and whale watching boat.

I saw a pirate ship!

I saw a fishing boat.

Happy Toes!

My feet really love my new ice skates, but my toes have been looking forward to something more summery....the sandy beach!  Finally, yesterday, I got myself to the beach on a sunny day.  My toes couldn't have been happier than they were there in the sand.

After stopping by school to check for mail (boohoo...I had nothing in my mailbox), I went to Long Branch Beach, New Jersey with one of my old teacher friends.  We had a lot of fun talking in the sun. We also took time to walk around the town to shop.  Then, we ate dinner outside while watching the lifeguards practice their swimming in the ocean.  It was a great time!

I sent my friend, Katie, a postcard a few weeks ago.  The postcard had directions on the front about how to build a sandcastle.  I thought it was so cool to hear that she brought my postcard down to the beach with her to follow the directions to build her own sandcastle.  I think I'll send some more fun postcards out soon!!  Would you like one?  Leave a comment to let me know...or write me a letter to let me know.

Breezy Beach Day

I finally had the chance to go to the beach, but guess what?  The weather was 70 degrees and breezy. It was a little too cool for me to go splash around in the ocean.  Besides that, the sun decided to hide behind the clouds for part of the day.  Luckily, my friend thought of some great ideas to make sure we had fun.

We decided to take a ride to Cape May to get 

some exercise while climbing all the way 

up to the top of this lighthouse.

This is the ferris wheel on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey.  It was my first time on a ferris wheel.  I enjoyed it.  It was a little cloudy, but I still had a great view of the beach!

Have you ever been to the boardwalk before?  We treated ourselves to some delicious dinner after playing skeeball and arcade basketball.  I need to practice at skeeball to do a little better next time.  

We decided to give the tickets we won to a little girl who was looking at prizes.  

It always feels good to give to others.

Would you like to read about the boardwalk?  Here are some fiction stories from the library: