This is my 4th year with the Shulls at their beach vacation week. I daresay, this is the only week each year where i really get a true vacation. Most of my vacation days go for bridge tournaments. Which i don’t regret in the least, but bridge is not exactly a vacation, since it involves somewhat insane amounts of focus. This beach week is about relaxation, and that’s what i enjoy about it.
The drive on Sunday was beautiful, and we drove with the top down and Nugent basking in the back seat. We arrived around 4 pm and then went to the grocery store. Dinner was served shortly thereafter, and a relaxing evening commenced.
If we had known that that was the last we would see of the sun for 5 days, i think we might have gone to the beach instead of the grocery store. But we didn’t, and most of the week was rainy and cloudy and extremely windy. This was fine, in general, as the family tends to spend 85% of their time lounging around the beach house anyway.
But Friday, our last day, dawned bright and sunny. And we finally got a day to enjoy in the ocean. And, it was warm enough for me to consent to being buried in the sand.
Being buried in the sand was one of my lifelong goals. Why? I dunno. It’s trivial, but not something i’ve ever done. I enjoy new experiences. I have some vague memories of watching others being buried, and how much laughter ensued. I just want to be able to say i’ve done it.
Here are a few things i learned and want to pass on about being buried in the sand:
- You will get sand in your mouth. Not because people are trying to bury your face, but just because you are talking and laughing. Which you will do. Because being buried in the sand is somewhat absurd.
- You will get sand in your ears.
- You will get sand in places you don’t really want to get sand. Man or woman. One piece or two piece.
- You will feel like a mummy in a sarcophagus.
- When you break free, you will feel like Frankenstein rising from the dead.
- Rinsing the sand off in the ocean when you’re done will not do a good job of removing the sand from all those places you didn’t really want to get sand.
- You should wait to get buried until you’re about ready to leave the beach, because once all that sand is in the places you don’t want it to be, you won’t want to stay any longer.
- You might take two showers, because one was not enough to really get all the sand off.
- You will find sand in your ears the next day, even if you took two showers the day of the burial.
Regardless, it’s an experience i wanted to have, and i’m glad i did it. Thanks to Lance and Kevin for helping burying me, and to ShullDad for taking the pictures.