nahant beach

after a morning of sleeping in and playing tennis (it's a hard life, i know), we decided to check out nahant beach this afternoon. i've heard really good things about it, so we had to see for ourselves. it's only 20 minutes away and $3 to park all day right on the beach. you can't beat that... seriously! so we took off for the place.

and... nahant beach was great. i can't get over how soft the sand is. the water is also considerably warmer than the pacific ocean and shallow for a long ways out there. we loved it. they even had "shave ice," although it wasn't as amazing as other places we have tried, it was still good. we will definitely be visiting nahant beach before our days of summer freedom come to an end. it was a fun day!

oh! crazy seagull story: so jeremy and i were just frolicking in the ocean and looking back every so often to make sure no one was swiping our loot. suddenly, we eyed two seagulls walking all over our stuff. we saw one take a bite of something, so we started running (well, i ran as jeremy gingerly followed at a walking pace). nothing was really awry at the scene, just some sandy seagull prints across the towels, but one of the perpetrators did manage to remove my bookmark from my book and plop it in the sand. funny little guy. i suppose he doesn't approve of reading for leisure.