night time beach adventures!

last week, august had another one of our adventures. we started by making a second attempt at going to the beach at night (since the first one last year, didn't work out too well) while we were walking along, we came to the other side of the pier and found a huge mound of sand piled high along the shore. what immediately came to mind? sledding on the sand! we went to find cardboard box and then proceeded to attempt some of what you might call southern California sledding

it didn't work out as we had planned...although it looks like i'm flying down, looks can be deceiving; i was at a complete stop. although the wind does add to the effect, don't you think?next we tried getting a running start to get going, but as you can see, august stumbled off her sled, leaving it buried in the sand behind her. then i discovered that trying to go on one's stomach is just altogether a bad idea...i definitely left the sled behind me, but continued to slide

in the end, we wound up rolling down the hill...much easier, although there were those minor problems of getting sand all down your shirt and every where else as well as the dizziness factor.

all in all it was a successful night. :)