Two weeks at the Beach

<TITLE> Two weeks at the Beach </TITLE>
<THEME> Family
<THEME> Beach
<THEME> FriendsMulvey
Monday at the beach began with a fan picture though the weather was breaking and soon we'd need fewer fan cycles.
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Then, Sarah began our beach project by reading aloud a chapter of The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall
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while I admired the 100% Bran
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and the proposed diet that would make me lose 10 pounds
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and Benjamin stretched
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as Sarah finished the chapter
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so that we could gather the basketball
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and Jane could do her stretching
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and we could adjourn to the basketball court
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with pictures from through the fence
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as the game came to an end and we vacated the court, step by step
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to the bench where the others were gathered
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as Sarah took a cell phone call
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and we watched as this kid
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videotaped his father skateboarding
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before recording the memorial on the bench
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having Jane pose in front of Bob on the job (porta potty)
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seeing the beach badge sales place
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and the warning side on the sewer
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before heading home so that Sarah could have her sandwich
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as I read this page of Anne Bronte's book
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and Ben's lunch
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only briefly kept Ben from his game
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as I took this self portrait
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and Sarah took this picture of me
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and then a few pictures of Ben
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and of me
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and then many pictures of Ben playing with his beach bucket as a hat
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as I read on further into the Bronte
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and Ben listened
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as we accumulated goods on the table
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as Sarah posed for numerous self portraits
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and then took this picture of the thermometer
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and the backdrop
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while waiting for Claire and Lizzie Mulvey to arrive
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so that we could head to the beach and set up as Suzanne took her cell phone call
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After a number of pictures of Jane, Claire, Lizzie, and Sarah
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and a picture of Ben's buried shovel
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as we sat
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and looked out at the beach
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until the beach badge checker arrived and posed for this picture
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as this woman passed by
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I took a self profile
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missed a self profile
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and took another self profile
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before capturing these pictures of Ben
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and Claire, Sarah and Lizzie
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as they headed down the beach
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past many shells
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and continued on
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as Suzanne
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looked at the gulls
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and our walk down the beach
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with the gulls
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continued and the shell gathering continued
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even as I photographed my shadow
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and this gull carrying dinner
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followed by the shadows of everyone else
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as we watched the gulls eat
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and Suzanne and Jane sat on the barrier rocks
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until the rest of us gathered
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for these family photos
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and then came rushing away because the green flies were biting.
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Back at the beach house, Ben found his perch
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as I read the next chapter
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as Sarah listened
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and took this artistic picture of her foot
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while Suzanne moved too fast for a clear picture
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