March 25, 2003

Spring Break

This is Chickies Spring Break week from school. Sotoday we packed up a blanket, a chair, a cooler, a BIG umbrella, a radio, sunscreen.and a friend.and headed off to the beach. Yes, yes. I know. You ALL thought that Id be sitting on the side of the road waiting for Dubyas motorcade to pass by on his way to MacDill AFB today so I could wave and blow kisses at him.but I decided to forgo that little life highlight in favor of the beach. We set up camp under the umbrella and the girls wandered off while I sat back with a book in my hand which I never read. There were too many people to watch! Instead of a narrative this will be rather more loosely worded drawing picturesif not pictures, then sketches. FallingDogthere will be some reference to rippling muscles!

Pelicans skimming the swells, their wingtips lightly kissing each tiny wave.

Tourists overdosing on sun, well on their way to blisters and sun stroke. Lobster red painful skin. Oh how it hurts me to even look at that.

Piles of spring break rubbish strewn inconsiderately and incoherently across the sand beer cans, water bottles, slurpee cups, beer bottles. Any doubt that teens cant decide whether they are adults or children slurpees or beer?

Coal black cormorants floating submerged with just their snake-like necks sticking out of the water, looking like a flock of periscopes for mini submarinesand then sitting on wooden pilings, wings stretched out to dry in the sun.

Power walking beach grannies, skin tougher than leather, deeper brown than walnuts, striding purposefully along the shoreline in neon wading shoes.

Kids building sand castles, using buckets twice as bit as they aredouble fisted shovelers and daring little tykes sitting not on, but IN the bucketfalling asleep face down in their castles

God love European men in their skin tight speedos a welcome change from our American boys in their cut-off jeans, baggy shorts and ¾ length pedal-pushers.

Noon time changing of the guard. Families go home and the real spring breakers start to emerge teens, teens everywhere. Coconut smelling lotion, radios,

Boys, young men, adolescent, pre-pubescent boys falling all over each other and themselves on skim boards chests puffed out in case any of the girls on the shore line are watchingpushing bicycles along the shore line, carrying a couch down the beach, strutting their long and lanky rippling muscled bodies which glistened with sweat and sea waterthrowing footballs, chasing Frisbees, furtively watching the girlswho are watching themwho are watching..

Girls, young women, adolescent, ladiesdoing back handsprings across the sand, playing the guitar, giggling, strutting, wearing teenie bikinis, skin, skin and more skinthe land of spandexand silicon. Long legs and day-glow orange pants. Surreptitiously eyeing the boys who are eyeing them who are.

70-ish couplein matching black and white bathing suitsholding hands and walking. How lovely.

Coast Guardevery 30 minutes, checking the coast line without fail. We wave.

Wind, wind, windclear blue skies smudged with purply gray cloudssun peeking through.

Sea gulls soaring high, riding the windthen lighting to squabble with each other over crumbs and empty zip-lock bagsand to scream at beach goers, demanding more.

Digging toes down deep in the sand, past the sun warmed soft sand on top to the cold wet sand below. Breathing deep of the sea airlooking aroundclosing eyesabsorbing the rhythmand never wanting to leave ever.

aquaphoric

March 26, 2003

ooooohhh beeeeeach. *drools* I love love LOVE water… and people watching is always fun. And the pretty ocean sounds… :):) sounds like a day well spent.

FallingDog

It sounds just heavenly. Especially because of all those MEN!!!!!! Er, because the ocean is so beautiful. Yeah, that’s what I meant.

RYN: not too often but fairly regularly … I have 3 sisters in the St. Pete/Largo area. UG

lifeisuhmistury

When I lived in Hollwywood, (there’s one in Florida, too!) I remember Spring Break as being total wall to wall people in the afternoons through the evenings…couldn’t even THINK about driving anywhere. I wonder if DIrty Ernie’s is still in Dania? They had the best conch fritters and roast pork sandwiches! I can hardly wait to come visit!

Thanks for the trip to the beach SW….we’ve been a bit short on UV’s here in the great NW. Plenty of water, though. Here’s wishing you a ‘beach state of mind’ most all the time.-Jeff

Luna

Hee Hee. I live at the beach. I do not drive to it. I walk there. In fact, I took a little stroll with the cutie boy this evening after dinner. It just does not get better than this. 🙂

ermentrude

Oh I love the beach. You brought back memories of me being one of the young girls on Jax beach. However, you did bring back memories of the neighbour from There’s Something About Mary with the leather skinned grannys!!

Why would boys carry a couch on the beach?

Torin

March 27, 2003

I’m saving my money so I can come visit next February. Be warned. With a grin…

The Watcher

And look who else lives.

Races with Deer

And the girls watch the boys watch the girls watch the boys as the girls go by. . . Love the beach. Will visit the Lake Michigan version many times this summer.

Lael

I’ve got it…. I’m moving to Florida, I’m gonna be Your personal assistant for the beach watching patrol… Lael Packing her bags and asking umm is that a right or left at New Orleans? and the Freedom errr French Quarter

Ooooh, sounds like a lovely day at the beach. I want a day at the beach. We didn’t get spring break around here and the beaches are all frozen, yuck. 🙂

Ainekate

*big sigh* Oh that was so nice. Thanks for bringing us along. I could smell the sea air & hear the gulls. I needed that. I so need a holiday. *with a warm smile & a bug hug*

Nectar

I so felt like i was there sitting beside you…it was so wonderful huggles you warmly

you should be writing books…Reading this entry I felt as if I was there…

Roo Belina

Oh man, sounds fantastic. Wish I was there, instead of cold and dark sweden. *big deep sigh*

Sounds wonderful – I liked the Blossom entry too – I love long hair on guys. 😉 (DrmDrgn – nsi) Guess what my sisters baby should have been born on the 26th – still hasn’t arrived – but I could be an aunty any day now.

March 28, 2003

Strolling after posting. With a smile…

awwww

March 29, 2003

Strolling again. I’m staying on my writing roll so far. With a smile…

That’s enough to make this desert/mountains girl want to go to the beach! ~:) ArtImp, nsi

Sigh… I can hear the surf… 😀

Ahh, the beach. Your beach sounds a bit balmier and has more of a “scene” than beaches around here, but I love all kinds. Northern California with big, cold waves, surfers, and seals; hawaiian tropical beaches of ease, boogie boarding w/o a wetsuit; languid packed beaches for people watching & warm resting. “…absorbing the warm rhythmn.” yes. Can’t wait unitl our vacation to Hawaii(soon)<

ryn: hehe slurpees or beer… i say slurpees.. i dont want to grow up…i like being a toys-r-us “kid”. lol, im such a dork!! i do like slurpees though. playing the guitar… ::Smiles::: i love my guitar. Love. the kind that lasts. God bless that 70ish couple. Priceless. =)

March 30, 2003

Still rolling and strolling. With a smile…

Mns

sdsu is also on spring break and with weather in the high 70s low 80s here, that means our beaches are crowded with lots of tanned, buff bodies. oh ok, and some of the other kind, too 🙂

*drats* i thought you were going to come rescue me from seven children under 12 hell!

*~*Lady Moon*~*

April 1, 2003

So beautiful, a day by the nice beach! 🙂 Here it is no beach weather today, but spirng is close and has been on visit too :HUG: ///// love to you,

April 3, 2003

No new updates for me before I gallop away for the weekend? With a sigh…

okay so now where are YOU? *grin* i updated in exhaustion mode, and now am usingthe dsl at the library, wow it loaded in less than ten minutes, waaay too cool. Silly wrist tho is going numb, fingers feeling like gingerale tastes so what’s the cure for carpel tunnel besides not typing like a maniac?