We took the train to Long Beach out on Long Island. Olivia enjoyed the train ride, her favorite part was having the conductor come through and punch tickets. Olivia was in charge of presenting our tickets to the conductor...after he left she kept calling for the conductor to come back.
As soon as we walked off the boardwalk and onto the sand Olivia fell to her knees and started running her fingers through the sand. She could have stayed right there feeling the sand with her fingers the whole day.
As we walked to our beach umbrella a lifegaurd came over to Olivia and told her that she won the best dressed award at the beach. As we continued our walk to the umbrella Olivia kept laughing and saying the sand was slippery-she was having a little bit of a hard time keeping her balance.
We took a brief dip in the water, but Olivia's focus was to get back to the beach umbrella and build sand castles.
We built a number of sandcastles, buried our feet and filled the sand molds we brought...Olivia has a blast. She loved the sand so much she couldn't resist the temptation to eat some.
We had such a fun day at the beach, we are excited to find another beach to explore.