Another Weekend- Another Beach Yeah!!!

Well I won't lie, the beach is great but I am starting to realize and accept that I am living on an island. I had a break down this week, when I realized I had been to every store on the Island and I was not going to find what I was looking for. This is not all. It is different culturally and I missed my old way of life. I am going to have to get good at Internet shopping, the only downfall is it cost so much to ship it here. But I got to know my neighbor really good this weekend. Her husband is deployed and she broke her toe Saturday morning. She called Deven to see if he would take a look at it. It is most likely broken but there is not much they will do for a broken toe. She has two young children so Deven and I invited them to come a long with us to the beach. No one wants to be in there house on a Saturday She was able to wrest and prop up her foot while Gracie and her son Adam played quite well together at the beach. It is nice to go to the beach because then I feel like I am on vacation and not stranded on an island where it will take 6-8 weeks to get our carpet here. You got to love it!!! If you sense some sarcasm in this just know it will pass and I will feel so much better tomorrow.
Deven was trying to teach Gracie a few knee boarding tricks on a boogie board. She was yelling "hit it" and Deven would take off.

Gracie and her friend Adam on White Plains Beach.

Deven is determined. He is going to learn how to surf. We rented the board and he headed out. So who won the surf board or him. He was exhausted and only made it to his feet once. I didn't even get a picture I couldn't keep track of him amongst all the surfers. But he will try it again soon. He is persistent.

This picture is kind of gross but a big sperm whale died and washed a shore on a beach on the North Shore. It was causing quite a stir as it was bringing in sharks. They spotted a 9 foot tiger shark swimming there and so they wouldn't let anyone in the water. But we wanted to go up and experience the excitement. It is the big tan blog at the bottom of the rocks. It was so stinky but this doesn't happen very often so we wanted to be a spectator as well. Gracie was so facinated. They have since removed it and that was quite an ordeal as half of the whale fell out of the truck onto the highway and closed the road down for a couple of hours. When a road closes down on the island everyone feels the effects.