August 20, 2012 - Going Back from Whence We Came

There's just something about sitting on the beach during the sunset with the smell of sea air and hot coals cooking various barbecued foods that is just...fun. Tonight we went to moonlight with the DeGuzman-Ortiz family to attend their church's annual Shrimp Boil. I'm completely allergic to seafood, of course, and because of that I'm unwilling to expose the girls to it yet. Still, we packed up some sandwiches and fresh fruit and our lawn chairs and headed off to Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. There is a cute little playground there on the beach where the girls got to run around with Ellie DeGuzman in their bathing suits. When it was time to eat, we found all kinds of great stuff. Angel made sure to plate up Spencer a huge bowl of shrimp, potatoes, corn and whatever else they thought to throw in.

The girls and I had sandwiches from Sprouts (a constant craving of mine), found some chips and salsa, no bake cookies, and all kinds of fruit! Later that evening, Spence taught the girls about roasting marshmallows and making woofums (for those of you how don’t know: these are roasted biscuits around a marshmallow shape piece of wood on a stick. You can fill them with pudding, fruit, or anything you can think of and top them with whipped cream. Yum!). We had a great time and finally decided at dark to head home to begin our journey up to San Francisco!