Eti and Jeff way up on the life guard chair, Coco and the other little ones couldn't get up there so the boys were feeling "king of the world".

Learning about  the life of Joseph with Grandpa.

It was so nice to have most of the family there.  For this second camping trip Grandma R's and Shel and James came.

Shel and James bring with them their great humor and sense of fun, and of course the clams, Tandoor chicken, and wonderful watermelon salsa!

Ethan getting pails of water for sand creations.

On July 12th we spent seven hours at the beach, at the end of the day right before falling asleep I wrote in my journal, "My eyes sting and skin feels hot from all the sun, my lips are chapped, but I feel like I lived well today and full..going to bed happy."

One of the afore mentioned sand creations, Steve built them a pirate boat

Elvis with Shel's youngest.  Shel has a family like ours, two boys and then a little girl named Madeleine

That is Simon and Chloe out in the water, most of the day I could hear Coco humming to herself over the sounds of the water.

Chloe, Jeff, Etienne, cousin Simon, Elvis holding cousin Madeleine, cousin Ethan.

Steve is not in the picture but he is doing something hilarious behind my head.

Most likely he was dancing a jig, and I am wondering now if that would have been a more entertaining photo.

Steve was yelling from the shore all the weddings I still have left to do this Summer and how dangerous it was to be out so deep in the water with my camera. But the day was so monochromatic it was really soothing and wanted to see if I could capture what it was like to swim in such a wide open space all to ourselves for most of the day with the sky matching the mood of the water.