Vacation! Day 1 (Sunday)

At last, a long needed vacation!  We are at Broadkill Beach in Delaware.  The reason we picked this beach - dogs are allowed all year round.  I found this house though dogfriendly.com, which lead me to homeaway.com.

Today has been a long day.  Mostly because we went out last night to Brody Bash - but it was all worth it.  We had a great time (except for the smoke-filled bar).  I still feel like I'm trying to catch my breath from that.

We headed out around 10 am this morning & got to the beach around 1 pm.  We stopped in Stevensville, MD at the K-Mart.  We were just looking for somewhere to walk the pups a little, and they had a great open area next to them.  Anyway, Dan went in and I started walking the pups around & what did I find? A $20 bill!  WOOHOO!

This house is great.  It's the perfect size for us.  We unpacked and walked down to the beach store & got drinks and subs for a late lunch.  Then we figured out what we needed for the week and Dan went to the store.  We weren't sure about leaving the pups by themselves to get food, so I stayed home.  I think it was a good move.  Both of the pups were anxious while Dan was gone.

Once he got back we went for a walk on the beach.  We saw a bunch of dead horseshoe crabs, but we also saw two mating (at least we think)!  We saw finger sponges and a dead puffer fish.  Most of the beach is covered in pebbles.  It must be just from being inland/a bay area.

Mating (???) Horseshoe Crabs

Tonight has just been hanging out and trying to catch up on e-mails and such.  The pups finally laid down and we hope they will sleep in tomorrow.

Zed's first time on the beach (that we know of)

"Hell, No! I'm not getting in that water!"