We met Amy and the girls at Point Beach for some off road biking, picnicing and swimming. The weather was beautiful. It took two vehicles to get to our adventure today but we parked at a bike trail head about 3 miles from the beach and headed through the ridges and swales under the cool cedar canopy of late August. It was an undulating terrain like the kids have never ridden before and their brakes did get a good work out. Merrick did spin out and scrap up a knee pretty good but was able to shake it off with his tougher than nails attitude and we continued on to the way to the beach. With a persistend 30 mile an hour breeze at the beach sand was everywhere. But there were sandcastles and pits to be made and wading to be done in the too-cold-for-adults temperature water. Crystal blue skies and no one else on the beach for as far as we could see. A private beach of such magnitude would be multimillion dollars but on this Monday it all ours for free. We did play some football and chase some seagulls after our sandwich picnic, heavy on the sand,and after several hours we hit the trail and biked the 3 mile deep woods route back to our rubber armada. We did swing by Washington House, the home of the Sundae, to partake in the cold confections and bovine lactations that make summer so grand before wrapping up the evening with a delicious taco meal and some reflection of how fortunate we are to have not one day like this but so many and so often.
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