Emily: the blog Day 3

Rules of the blog:
1) Each person (Sweetpea, Tracie, and Emily) sits down at night to write an entry
2) What you write is not shared with the other three people until it is read with the group after its published
3) You publish your entry
4) We take turn reading each others blogs out loud with Grandpa and Allen present
5) Laugh hysterically at our day
* There is a possibility we all talk about the same thing from our own points of view...I'm guessing the three from today all might mention the "umbrella incident" :)

Now about our day:
Today was a beach day again. Only Sweetpea, Mom and I chose to venture to the beach while the other two stayed at home. (Dad was not feeling good today) We walked the 5 min to the beach where we planted ourselves. Mom brought the two beach chairs and I laid on a mat. Let me explain how windy it is by the ocean, it's blustery...dads hat has flown off a few times and when ever you pick up the mat thats been in the sand you have a chance at covering the person next to you like a walking piece of sand paper thats stuck to all the sunscreen.

Anyways...three girls at the beach with a large umbrella. What do we do? Point it the wrong way in the wind. That thing lifts off like a rocket. Mom hops up out of her chair like a jumping bean and sprints towards the umbrella. This umbrella is hauling ass, so is my mom. I've never seen that woman run so fast in my life. The whole scenario looked like a old black and white movie...an umbrella rolling in the sand with mom hurdling after it. Once the umbrella slows down for the slightest second so does mom. The wind picked up again the umbrella catches speed and mom throws her hand up in the air and takes off running again. After her attempt I would give her a "10". She gave Jesse Owens a run for his Olympic gold medal.

We then see the nudist guy the next sand hill over look at what we were doing. He had the courtesy to put on his shorts and haul after it as well. He didn't catch it either, some one in the next town over has a new nice white umbrella. I think that was the best 10$ mom ever spent. I don't think I have laughed so hard in a long time.

Love you mom,
Emily.