A perfect day!

Sealions which Grace was terrified of

The perfect end to a perfect day!

It seemslike last weekend everyone we knew went to the beach, and Josh and I were kind of bummed we missed our chance since last weekend was so beautiful and this one started off so rainy. Yesterday morning we woke up to a clear blue sky with plenty of sunshine so we bundled up, packed up and headed to the coast! The beach was cold but absolutely beautiful. And it is amazing what some fresh air and wide open space to run can do for a two year old. After arriving in Newport I had to take some time to recover from the car ride over but it didn't take long and we were all able to enjoy a greasy but yummy meal from moes. Then we went to the beach where Grace absolutely had a blast running around, looking at the ocean, climbing on rocks, and crunching with her boots every sea shell I showed her. After a long walk and somewhat freezing our faces we decided we had to get ice cream (smart) because that's what you do at the beach. (Well other places you can swim, here we eat....although we did see an older woman swimming in her bathing suit! Crazy!) Well our normal ice cream stop was closed (something about cold weather and no one wanting ice cream) and our second and only other ice cream shop only took cash which we had none of. However we did find an art gallery/coffee shop that sold ice cream bars made with Euphoria chocolate. Oh my gosh! I fell asleep last night dreaming of these ice cream bars, they were amazing! The lady pulls out a plain vanilla ice cream bars and opens a vat of chocolate dips it in right there and hands it to you!!! I was in heaven! Anyways we ate on their little sundeck where you could look out at the bay but stay warm, it was perfect!