Beach Vacation

I have friends who are leaving this weekend for a beach vacation. I love beach vacations. We were going to have one this summer, but since things have changed, we canceled it. So, today, we talked about how to have a beach vacation without the beach. We can still eat seafood everyday. We can still have drinks with little umbrellas in them. We can sit on lounge chairs by the pool. We can leave our bathing suits on all day. We can go to Kings Island's Soak City and play in the waves. We can watch sand volleyball. We can play Jimmy Buffett and reggae music. We can sit on our porch and watch the sunset and imagine the ocean just on the other side of the tree line. We can lie in bed at night and listen to wave CDs and fall asleep to the sounds of the water. What is a beach vacation?  Long lazy mornings, picnic lunches, bike rides, swims, naps, starlit dinners...we can do that here. We can do that with friends, and family, whenever the mood strikes us. We don't have to spend hours in the car, salty, sunburned, stuck in traffic. Of course, the ocean is not here, that beautiful blue body of power and wonder. But everything else is, and we are here, so we will do our best to bring the beach vacation home. Come along with us!