Beach in Rye

A few weeks ago we had a beautiful and warm day and I decided to take the kids to the beach. I love that we are living this close to the ocean. One thing I did not like about Nashville: we were neither close to the Ocean (like in Boston) or the mountains (like in Austria).

White Plains (our current location) is not directly by the ocean, but within 10 minutes we were in Rye at the beach. It is still off season and free to go (during the summer it will be a little pricey to go there).

The kids just love the sand and the water. I did not think that they would actually go swimming as the water is still pretty cold. But that did not bother them. Finn and Lilly just played in the waves the whole 2 hours we were there. We met some nice moms with their kids and had a great time.

As they were fixing the beach close to the parking lot (still from Hurricane Sandy), we had to walk to the other end of the beach and therefore back to the car again. Finn and Lilly were not very motivated to walk back and I bribed them with an ice cream. They loved that and we had some Spongebob ice cream for lunch that day - because the immediately fell asleep in the car on the way home :-)

Snack time is always important

Making new friends on the beach

Enjoying the low tide